text: My very earliest memory was at age 3.  On my 3rd birthday, We went to pickup my grandmother, I walked into her home first and she was sleeping on the couch.  I tried to wake her up, and she would not wake up.  I shook her, telling her to get up, it was my birthday and we were there to take her to our home for my party.\nMy grandmother had died.  I was too young to be upset.  I did not understand death.  I went home, told my brother that grandmother was dead, and went on with my party.\nI remember every detail, every word, of that entire day, but nothing prior.