#08: The Right to Oblivion - Part 2

One day Paula receives a mysterious message in a bottle that leads to a memory she'd long forgotten.

In Morocco, Ed Gavagan finds the hidden flaw in the Golden Rule.

When Nick Flynn decided to interview his mother's ex-boyfriends, he discovered that a memory central to his childhood was false.

When Jacqueline Freeman became a beekeeper, she needed guidance, and she found help in the most unexpected and obvious places.

In 1973, a bank robbery captivated Sweden and led to the first diagnosis of Stockholm Syndrome. In "The Ideal Hostage," Kristen Enmark returns to the scene of the crime to cast off the stigma of a syndrome that never made sense to her.

In Part 3 of "The Right to Oblivion," despite Eric's desire to forget, his past relationship with Chris returns to threaten him.

In Part 2 of "The Right to Oblivion," Viktor Mayer-Schönberger reveals what's at stake when we undo forgetting, and Frank Ahearn shows us how the internet can forget our past if we're willing to use deception.

If forgetting helps us forgive, how will the internet's relentless memory impact our ability to accept other people's past crimes and mistakes when we want parts of our life to be forgotten? In Part 1 of "The Right to Oblivion," when Evan Ratliff tries to erase his digital footprint and disappear for a Wired story, he realizes the fake identity he's created to mislead the people who want to find him has become part of his real life in unexpected ways.

"The Wonder Years," is not only a TV show but a time machine, and for Titi Nguyen, the series brought her back to a childhood she never had.