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April 1974

Amnesia

When you're starting all over again, it's hard to know what to believe

IT WAS an unfortunate accident. After nearly a year of happy AA sobriety, Ambrose had slipped, and now he was suffering from amnesia. Oh, he didn't drink It was a physical slip, a fall from a stepladder. He couldn't recall the mishap that had wiped out his memory, but the doctor reconstructed the circumstances from the evidence in the den: the upset ladder, the huge, hard-covered book lying by his bleeding head. Already, his brain surgeon and the neurologist were collaborating on a medical paper crediting Ambrose with being the first person in medical history to have amnesia as the result of being struck on the head by a book on memory training.

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