''You Must Remember This'' is a 1987 novel by

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...

. It tells the story of Enid Maria, a girl who falls in love with her uncle, a professional boxer. It also is about her family, the Stevicks, and their thriving life in Port Oriskany, a fictional industrial city in upstate New York.

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*The book's title comes from the song " As Time Goes By" (1931), whose first lines are, "You must remember this / a kiss is just a kiss"; the tune was made famous when used as the theme song for ''Casablanca'' (1942). *

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was the

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used by a formerly unidentified man who committed

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in 2001, in a motel in Amanda Park,

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. The man was seen alive prior to his death, including at the hotel where he died. In May 2018, it was announced that "Lyle" was identified after nearly 17 years, and that the discovery was made with assistance from a non-profit organization called the

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. The man was 25 years old when he died and had previously resided in

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. His relatives requested for his identity to be withheld. He had checked in as Lyle Stevik, presumably using the name of a character from Oates' book. Postmortem photo at link.

References

1987 American novels Dutton Penguin books Novels by Joyce Carol Oates Novels set in New York (state) Novels about boxing {{1980s-novel-stub