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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: I can’t put names to faces – and it’s starting to upset friends

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

Q. I am in my mid-sixties and have started to suffer from nominal aphasia. At a recent wedding in the Highlands, two very familiar faces came towards me and I couldn’t put a name to either. Worse, at a wake following a funeral, one old friend was very upset when I failed to recognise her, she claimed wrongly that it must have been because she had aged since we’d last met.

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