The Hairy Girl- is that a real memory?

I have been remembering a lot of little things lately, and I wonder sometimes if I am remembering or am I just remembering a story someone told me. How do we really know. If someone told us and we remember it, does that make it less a memory? Like the games we used to play as kids. I remember sometimes I would play by myself cuz Misti and Chad didn't want to play Barbies, they wanted to play more physical games. That was ok. I was listening to them talk about some of the stuff they used to do and I had no memory of it what so ever. I really wasn't there. I was off by myself while they were on their adventures. That was ok then and it is still ok now. We still have plenty of memeories to go around. Chad and I went on a "vacation" with Mamaw and Poppie. I have mentioned it before. It was a two week long journey into....well it was a journey. Plenty of laughs, plenty of omigosh not Shoney's again. One of the places we visited was Cypress Gardens in Florida. It was a beautiful if not very touristy "garden"/Lots of beautiful plants, flowers, and some animals. But what I remember most is the "hairy girl". The place was full of young ladies who were dressed like southern belles. They were everywhere. Mamaw and Poppie were quite insistent that Chad have his picture taken with one of the pretty ladies. So they sort of made him go up to one and ask for a picture. Or they asked her, not sure on that. Anyway, she was sitting on a bench and Chad went behind her for the picture. "Smile", I'm not sure if you could actually call it a smile...lol! When he came back over to us, I asked him if she was pretty and he said, not really, just 'Hairy'...hairy? Yes, she had hair all over her back and shoulders....I laughed so hard I thought I would pass out. This could only happen to one of us of course, leave to Mamaw to pick the hairy girl, right?!! laughing still...was that a real memory?.....I do believe it was.