I lost two years of my memory in a car crash, then fell in love with the nurse who helped me recover. On our wedding night, one drunken sentence changed everything.
The string lights above the terrace had gone soft and blurry. My wedding dress felt heavier than it had at the altar, and my left leg – the one that had spent months in a cast – ached beneath the table.
Across the dance floor, Richard laughed with the caterer, and I still couldn’t quite believe he was my husband.
“Write things down.”
My parents had died when I was nineteen, and the two chairs I’d reserved for them stayed empty.
I touched the small leather notebook inside my clutch.
I’d carried it everywhere since waking in a hospital with stitches in my forehead, a cast on my leg, and two years of my life missing.
Retrograde amnesia, Dr. Whitaker had called it. Maybe permanent. Maybe not.
I fell in love with him.
“Write things down,” she’d told me. “Don’t rely on anyone else to tell you who you are.”
So I did.
Coffee: oat milk, one sugar.
Allergic to penicillin.
Best friend: Megan, with a line drawn through her name and no explanation beside it.
Richard had been there almost every day after I woke up. He was a nurse, which explained why he always seemed to know what I needed.
“Most of us drifted apart.”
“You take your coffee with oat milk,” he said once, before I’d told him.
“Lucky guess.”
Another time, he carried a vase of lilies out of my room before I could ask. “They give a lot of people headaches,” he explained.
I accepted that answer too.
When I was discharged, he offered me his spare room. I had no family waiting and nowhere that felt like home.
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