"D'autant que" and Subjunctive

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In one of the dictées, I ran into the expression "d'autant que je me souvienne"...par exemple, je n'aime pas les aliments sucrés d'autant que je me souvienne." I haven't liked sweet foods for as long as I can remember (or maybe more literally "for as much as I remember." Why is "de" used before avant que? Does that kind of replace "for" in English? And why does it take the subjunctive? I'm guessing that perhaps it takes the subjunctive because memory is fallible and perhaps there's an element of doubt? Perhaps one is not remembering correctly?

This question relates to:French lesson "Plus que/Moins que/Autant que = More than/Less than/As much as (Comparisons with Verbs in French)"

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"D'autant que" and Subjunctive

In one of the dictées, I ran into the expression "d'autant que je me souvienne"...par exemple, je n'aime pas les aliments sucrés d'autant que je me souvienne." I haven't liked sweet foods for as long as I can remember (or maybe more literally "for as much as I remember." Why is "de" used before avant que? Does that kind of replace "for" in English? And why does it take the subjunctive? I'm guessing that perhaps it takes the subjunctive because memory is fallible and perhaps there's an element of doubt? Perhaps one is not remembering correctly?

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