Memories decay if they're not accessed regularly. We've got a finite number of neurons in our brains, so older memories get shunted around to make space for the constant flow of new ones. —Random notes: Julia Gordon Julie pulled off the headset and quickly glanced around. , Alone. Eathan hadn't returned. No one had seen her. Thank God. She slumped back in die recliner and closed her eyes, drefl a deep, shuddering breath. She was weak, she was damp. My God! My . . . God.' So that's what it's like! Now Julie knew why Sam had always been so hot for the boys. How different her own attitude—hell, her whole life-might be if she could respond like that. She stared at her sister. Sleeping Beauty was still breathing softly, her cardiac monitor ticking along at a steady seventy-two beats a minute. No sign that she'd relived the moment Julie had just experienced.