Recounted Quotes

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?