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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
John Bett

'Real-life 50 First Dates' teen who forgets each day is slowly getting her memory back

A 'real-life 50 First Dates ' teenager who forgets each day after she's lived it and has to be reminded of what she's done for the past five years is slowly regaining her memory. Caitlin Little, 19, was accidentally hit in the head by a teammate when she was training for a running race and developed anterograde amnesia.

The condition, which was popularised by Drew Barrymore 's character in the hit 2004 film, means that she forgets each day and can't develop new memories since the day of the incident, October 12, 2017. But now the teen's memory is starting to return and she's just taken part in a 5K race, which she never would have been able to do before.

Caitlin was injured while training for a cross-country race (Caitlin's Journey to Healing/ Facebook)
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