Boinkfest clicks 'Delete' on woman's memory • The Register

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A woman identified only as Alice - no last names, please - had her memory reinitialized by a presumably stimulating romp with her husband, Scott.

After the duo's sweaty success, the couple switched on the TV, which was covering - as was every media outlet during August 2008 - the Beijing Olympics. "Is there an Olympics?" Alice asked Scott.

As the astute Scott recounted to CNN: "I saw that something was wrong, so I asked her, 'OK what day is it?'" This temporal tidbit eluded abstracted Alice.

Scott then upped the investigative ante and asked her who the US president was. Possibly exhibiting as much denial as amnesia, Alice replied: "Bill Clinton."

Although reports fail to mention either Scott or Alice's party affiliation, this failure to identify Dubya as the then-occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue prompted hubby to call an ambulance.

At hospital the meds first thought that Alice had suffered a stroke, but further testing revealed her to be a victim of transient global amnesia (TGA), a rare but blessedly benign form of temporary memory loss more common in people over 50. Alice was an obviously vital 59 year old.

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