NADINE POINT OF VIEW.

Eyes still shut, heart pounding with anticipation, I willed myself to remember, I willed my memories to come back and take their rightful place in my mind. I shut my eyes tight till it hurt, till I felt them becoming moist, filled with tears, but nothing came to mind. I felt so dislodged from the world, so detached, like I was a spirit, disembodied, floating over the surface of the earth.

"Anything?" The doctor said, his voice cutting into the silent blankness in my ...