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// Patient Interview 51 - Foalhood Memories 
// Story: Fragments 
// by PaddedCell 
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Source: Patient Interview 51 - Foalhood Memories.
Interview notes taken by Doctor Starlight.

I can gather from the interview taken that the patient's early memories are perhaps the most vivid of all. After having taken Interview 43 with her, I can see a definite change in the overall clarity of memory shown. She told me during the interview of her earliest memory. According to her, she must have been "only a year or two old". A mere filly. Here follows a transcript of her account, edited to remove my prompts and irrelevant data in order to provide a more flowing, prose-like account of events.

"It was the first memory I can remember. My family lived in some far-off land, in a village surrounded by forests and mountains. I forget the name of the place. But it was a nice place, up until the war. Horrendous fighting had apparently broken out across the region, apparently the result of quarrelling between the Pegasii and Unicorns. Well, we never thought that the war would affect us, being in that sheltered little community. But war has a way of affecting everypony. It burrows into your mind like a thousand maggots into a rotten old cadaver, one by one.. We were unaffected for a week or so after the news of the war hit town. I'll always remember the day it turned violent, though. Our settlement was predominantly made up of Pegasii and Earth Ponies. There was only one Unicorn family in the place, and soon they became the clear target. It started with dirty looks and ponies refusing to talk to them. It ended with them strung up to a tree, legs broken and horns cut off. Within a few more weeks, our little slice of paradise had been turned into a silent, shunned place."