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Authors: Su Meck

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Copyright © 2014 by Susan E. Meck

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition February 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Meck, Su.

I forgot to remember : a memoir of amnesia / Su Meck with Daniel de Visé. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages cm—(Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover)

1. Meck, Su—Mental health. 2. Amnesia—Patients—Biography.  3. Brain—Concussion—Complications. I. De Visé, Daniel, author. II. Title.

RC394.A5M43 2014

616.85'232—dc23       2013034048

ISBN 978-1-4516-8581-7

ISBN 978-1-4516-8583-1 (ebook)

Contents

These Are the Days of Our Lives

Chapter 1: Life in the Fast Lane

Chapter 2: Confusion

Chapter 3: I Don’t Remember

Chapter 4: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Chapter 5: You’ve Got A Friend

Chapter 6: Eminence Front

Chapter 7: Better Things

Chapter 8: Mama, I’m Comin’ Home

Chapter 9: The Great Pretender

Chapter 10: Life Is a Lemon, and I Want My Money Back

Chapter 11: Ode to My Family

Chapter 12: Sweet Child O’ Mine

Chapter 13: School

Chapter 14: Walk Like an Egyptian

Chapter 15: Shiny Happy People

Chapter 16: Some Days Are Better Than Others

Chapter 17: Perfect

Chapter 18: Hello, Goodbye

Chapter 19: Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Chapter 20: What If

Chapter 21: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Chapter 22: Learning to Fly

Chapter 23: Wish You Were Here

Chapter 24: Break on Through

Acknowledgments

Reading Group Guide

About Su Meck and Daniel de Visé

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