When Jonas gives a memory to Gabe in The Giver, does he still have the memory?

The answer here is no.  Once Jonas gives the memory to
Gabe (or if he would give it to anyone else, for that matter) he no longer has the
memory himself.  This is also true of the Giver himself.  When he gives the memories to
Jonas (getting Jonas ready to be the new Receiver) he no longer has the memories.  So,
somehow, these are things that are transferred, not things that can be copied and given
away.

I know this from something that the Giver says in
Chapter 12, about 6 pages or so into the chapter.  The Giver is trying to get Jonas to
call up the memory of the sled and the hill.  Jonas wonders why the Giver doesn't just
give him the memory again.  The Giver says

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It's your memory, now, It's not mine to
experience any longer.  I gave it
away.