I REMEMBER NOTHING
May 07, 2021
4 minutes
BY JACQUES MYBURGH
PICTURES:
FANI MAHUTSI
‘EVERY MORNING I HAVE TO TELL HIM ABOUT THE PANDEMIC, MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING. IT’S A SHOCK EVERY TIME’
EVERY morning for the past five years has started the same way. Over and over he’s had to learn the intimate details of a life that should be familiar to him: his own.
“You wake up and feel this place is yours but you don’t really know what’s going on,” Gerrie Kachelhoffer says.
Fortunately every morning brings another constant: the presence of someone whose name and face he can’t quite place. Then she introduces herself to him again: “I’m your wife.”
And for about an hour – as
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