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1 Look at the headline and photographs. 2 Discuss these questions.
I How has the world changed since 1973?
€[ Discuss these questions.
2 What problems do you think Sarah's amnesia
I What does amnesia mean?
caused Ior
2 What is the connection between the photographs?
c Sarah?
I What do you think happened to the people?
r her family?
b nead the article and check vour ideas.
The forgotten years

It was 1973 and Sarah Simms was a children Alexander, 11, and Linda, difficult since the accident,'he says.
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happy l9,year,old. She had a nice 9. The u,orld had also changed 'Things have changed a iot. it's hard
job in a film laboratory, and in the dramatically. What, for example, was when a wife and mother thinks she's
evenings she went out with her a word processot, a microwave or a still a teenager.'
boyfriend. She loved dancing, compact discl Those things had not
Sarah and her
especially to her {avourite pop been invenred in 1973. Had Brirain husband
group, T. Rex. realiy had a woman prime minister? Michael in
And uherc had all her lavourite pop 1 993
Then she rvoke up in a hospital bed.
stars gone?
A man u,as talking to her. He said
that he was her husband, but she Doctort say that Sarah'r amnesia is
didn't recognize hirn. In fact, she rare, but they hope that her memory
didn't like him very much. She will slowly return. Her husband
thought he looked very old. Some Michael hopes so, too. 'Life has been
other visitors were standing around
her be,l. too. She Jrdn't recognize any
of them except her sister, Sal1y, and
even she looked twenty years older.
But that's because Sally ola.s twenty
years older, and so was Sarah.
Two days earlier Samh had been in a
car crash. The accident had erased
twenty years of her memory. It was
now 1993, but fol Sarah it was 1973 &,:
and she was still a teenager. She'd ,'.E &
foi'gotten the twenty years in
between.
In those twenty years Sarah had got
married. (ln 1973 she hadn't met her
husband.) And she'd had two Sarah and Michael in. 1971, frill years before their marriage.

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