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Anna Martin: From 'The New York Times, ' I'm Anna Martin.
Welcome to a new season of 'Modern Love.'
Today, we've got a story that sounds like a romcom.
Girl meets boy.
They fall in love.
They break up.
Then just a few months later, boy gets amnesia, forgets everything.
Tyler Wetherall: I used to receive messages like this from my ex-boyfriend —
'did we have a joke about flamingos,' and,
'how did I get the scar on my hand?'
They were not invitations for a trip down memory lane.
He was asking because he couldn't remember.
I wasn't just his ex-girlfriend.
I was the only one who could remember everything
that we had shared together.
Anna Martin: Tyler Wetherall wrote a 'Modern Love' essay
about how she tried to help her ex-boyfriend remember their relationship.
But in the process of jogging his memory,
things got complicated, and confusing, and messy