"Head Cases"

...."Jimmy thought he was still nineteen, still in the navy, still looking forward to seeing his girlfriend (long gone and married to another man). He could not have a conversation unless it pertained to incidents he had experienced before the rupture, in which case he could talk for hours, fluently and with the detailed recall of recent experience, which for him it still was."

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