A Chicken And Egg Problem

Somehow, Austyn had the feeling that even if the two women were dressed in the same clothes, had the same haircut and put on the same makeup, he could still tell them apart with one glance. He didn’t know where that feeling came from. It was just a hunch. Maybe this was a sign that Kira was telling the truth—he did know her in the past. Austyn forced himself to stop thinking further. Every time he tried to access his buried memory, he was attacked by a debilitating, blinding headache. The neurologist warned him not to overdo it. There were no known effective treatments or medications for retrograde amnesia. The doctor said any treatment would have to focus on the underlying cause of the amnesia. But Austyn wouldn’t know the cause unless he recovered his memory and knew what happened. So it became a chicken and egg problem. All he could do was take the doctor’s advice and take it easy. His headache went away when he was focused on something else, like work, which was why he spent more t