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by getting them to stick their hand in freezing cold water
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and with people undergoing
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extremely painful colonoscopy procedures.
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And it turns out that if you want to give people a good memory,
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or a less bad memory, of a horrible event
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topping them off with some mild pain will do the trick.
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In the end, endings matter.
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Both of these examples,
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a party that's hugely fun for ninety percent,
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then the last ten percent somebody slaps you in the face
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and pours dip on you or something--
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So, ninety percent of good stuff, ten percent bad stuff,