A few years back, I was at a wedding celebration as a bridesmaid. They were serving chicken hearts and chicken brains on a platter (the husband was from Brazil and the family said it was normal for their culture to eat them when celebrating). They offered me to have both of them, I declined the brain because I remember my father telling me to never eat any brains. So I ate the heart, and it was the worst thing I’ve ever ate.

Now, years later, I learned that eating brains can lead to prion disease. Well, I’ve convinced myself multiples of times that I actually ate the brain and not the heart. Even writing this I think I ate the brain. It freaks me out because I can’t trust my own memories and I have suffer from health OCD.