I hope everyone is having a great winter break! I just wanted to share this NPR article, which features a woman quite similar to the character in Borges’s short story:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/18/255285479/when-memories-never-fade-the-past-can-poison-the-present?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook