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Letter: When a childhood calendar is for life

Published 17 January 2018

From Fred Ramsey, Dublin, Ohio, US

Caroline Williams discusses calendar synaesthesia (23/30 December 2017, p 74). For me, the months of the year are placed around a square, with June, July and August at the top, September, October and November down the right side, December, January and February heading left along the bottom, and March, April and May rising up the left side. This is not because my brain is different. It is how the calendar on the wall in my kindergarten class looked.

Issue no. 3161 published 20 January 2018

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