Call back
Call back verb - Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
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Forget
Forget verb - Be unable to remember.
Both terms in one sentence
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So, waving at the champion defecator, I call back: 'Seven on a good day,' and forget him.
Source: Literature / Midnight's Children - He never actually uses this ability in the canon, but there is still a very sad Call Back to it in Metal Gear Solid 4 in a sequence where the player may have him forget a computer password, demonstrating he has lost this ability.
Source: Loose Canon
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