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Jason Bourne, Romantic amnesia in the Ludlum series.

Me and Jason Bourne

    Dare I compare myself with Jason Bourne? We may seem like an unlikely pair considering Jason Bourne is a sharp shooting fictional character in an American spy thriller and I am a pacifist woman living a quiet life in Australia. Yet what we share is waking up one time with no idea who we were,… Read More »Me and Jason Bourne

    The Answer to the Riddle has a true story of the author waking up with no idea where he is. Whereas I was in a hospital, he is on a train platform in India.

    The Answer to the Riddle is Me

      Behind the amnesia incident In 2002, David MacLean was a 28-year-old Fulbright scholar in the midst of a research trip to India for a novel when a severe, and sudden, case of amnesia struck. He’d been to India before with no hitches, but on this trip, his anti-malarial medicine caused him to lose his memory.… Read More »The Answer to the Riddle is Me