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'The Mandela Effect' is the perfect film for our age of distrust and doubt

  • Written by Aaron French, PhD Candidate in the Study of Religion, University of California, Davis
Some are convinced that details from the past are being warped.Periscope Entertainment

You’ve likely used the internet to help you remember something, like a quote from a movie, only to discover the answer differed from what you had anticipated. Maybe you shrugged, telling yourself your memory was faulty, and went on with your life.

But what...

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