00:00yesterday I got a notification on my phone 3 17 p.m. you have a new memory I
00:06opened the app photos one year ago today the photo was me in my living room
00:11smiling but I've never been in that living room before different furniture
00:15different walls not my house I checked the date last year same day but I was
00:20somewhere else last year I remember I was at work I scrolled through more
00:26photos five more all from that day me cooking in a kitchen I don't recognize
00:31me reading on a couch I've never owned me sleeping in a bed that isn't mine every
00:37photo different location but the same day I checked my location history that day
00:42last year my phone says I was at that house all day from 7 o'clock a.m. to 11
00:47o'clock p.m. but I wasn't I was at work I have emails with timestamps my boss
00:54remembers me being there my co-workers saw me but my phone says otherwise
00:58today I got another notification you have a new memory two years ago same date
01:04more photos me in places I've never been doing things I never did a birthday
01:08party I don't recognize anyone there but I'm smiling cutting a cake opening
01:13presents hugging people I've never met my phone says I was there all the metadata
01:19checks out but I don't remember any of it I called the people in the photos the
01:23phone numbers were in my contacts under names I don't recognize one person
01:27answered a woman she said I was wondering when you'd call back I said who are you
01:32she laughed very funny same joke every year I said I'm not joking she stopped
01:39laughing you're serious you don't remember I said no there was a long
01:44silence and then she hung up I checked my photo library thousands of photos half of
01:50them I don't remember taking places I've never been people I've never met but in
01:54every photo I look happy like I belong there last night I got a text from one of
01:59the numbers why did you stop coming we miss you when will you come back I
02:05responded I don't know what you're talking about they sent a photo me at a
02:09dinner table with a family kids a dog everyone smiling the text said this was
02:15last Christmas you promised you'd come back my location history says I was at
02:19that house all day but I remember being with my own family I have photos from
02:23that day to with my parents at their house same day same time two different
02:29places this morning I woke up to 47 notifications all photos all from dates I
02:36remember differently all showing a life I don't remember living and the most
02:40recent notification was from today 3 17 p.m. a photo of me right now sitting on
02:47my couch but taken from outside my window uploaded to my phone with my account
02:52the caption says one day from now you'll remember everything
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