The Six Thousand

Give Tatiana Cooley 15 minutes to memorize 100 faces and names and she'll remember 70 of them in a snap. Give the reigning and only USA National Memory Champion strings of 4,000 numbers, "70093518 555899 ..." or 500 words: "liquid, dairy, digit, district, garden, hair ..." and she'll repeat them better than most. Same with a 54-line poem or a deck of cards.

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