My eyes are closed; the room is silent. “I cannot make myself understood, now.” I am speaking slowly and distinctly. “Call it something I ate.”

It’s funny what you don’t recall. Our first home, in the suburb of Weston, which I barely remember – my eldest brother Orin says he can remember being in the home’s backyard with our mother in the early spring, helping the Moms till some sort of garden out of the cold yard. March or early April.

–Infinite Jest,
David Foster Wallace

Which words help you understand that this passage is a flashback?

ate, early spring

distinctly, understood
recall, remember
The most likely reason for this flashback is that it provides a(n)
✔ memory associated with his comment
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