Woman Starts Dating A Man She Married Before The Head Injury That Made Her Forget Everything Since The Age Of 17
Laura and Brayden Faganello may seem like an ordinary couple who just got engaged. However, those who are close to them already know that their story is far from ordinary. Since they met and fell in love three years ago, the pair has proven that some people are meant to be together and they cannot be separated by time, distance or even… memory loss.
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Recently, Laura Faganello announced her engagement explaining why she’s marrying her husband Brayden again
In 2016, Laura met Brayden for the first time and fell in love with him. Nearly three years after that, Laura found herself in a situation where she had no idea who Brayden even was. The couple had married the same year they met and 9 months after tying the knot, tragedy struck, putting their relationship on the line.
“A local wedding design/coordinator company hired me for the day to help set up an event. We were outside decorating the big event tent, but the company was running late and didn’t have the tent walls up. The wind was insane that day, everything was flying everywhere and shattering. Because everything was running late, there wasn’t a lot of care put into the safety measures. I was tasked with decorating the tables, so as I was arranging that I heard a gasp from the girls facing me. I looked up, and then heard (and definitely felt!) a loud thump on my head. A large pole (one that took two ladies to set up as it was so heavy and tall) had dislodged in the wind and fell right onto my head. My last clear thought was “that isn’t good….” After that, everything went fuzzy,” Laura told Bored Panda.
The horrific accident had extreme consequences. Laura woke up with only lasting memories of when she was 17 years old. All memories of meeting, falling in love and marrying Brayden were completely gone.
“Before the accident, I was one year away from graduating university. After the accident, I struggled to read, write, and speak coherent sentences, and my damaged short term memory caused me to forget everything I read within moments. I had to drop out of school. My pain levels were intense with absolutely no breaks for the first two years; I literally carried an airplane barf bag in my purse everywhere I went. The absolute worst part, though, was the memory loss. I would wake up and scream out of fear because I had no idea who my husband was. I would dread him coming home from work every day because then I would need to make small talk with him, just like you would with a stranger,” she explained.
Being married to a complete stranger took its toll on Laura, however, the strong woman refused to give up on her marriage. So, she decided to try to fall in love with him again.
“At the start of this journey, Brayden was quite rough around the edges. He was overwhelmed by having a wife that was so dependent on him, who didn’t even know who he was. There were many nights I cried myself to sleep. Eventually, he made a conscious choice to change that. He started being more gentle, loving, and selfless with me. He became my best friend as I started feeling like I could open up to him. We would go on endless drives, talking for hours. We binged The Office and Parks And Rec a million times. We could laugh for hours and not get tired of each other. I didn’t feel like I was in love with him, but I definitely liked him. So, I took off my rings, and I told him that I wanted to date him,” she said.
After starting all over again as strangers, Laura eventually started having feelings for him. “Brayden started leaving me cute notes on my bedside table every morning. I started asking him on fun dates. We would talk on the phone on his breaks, and do everything people who are newly dating would do. One day, I realized that I had started missing him every moment we weren’t together. Then, I found myself bringing him up to everyone I talked to like a teenage girl with a crush does, ” Laura said.
It took over two years for Laura to recover from the accident. And despite the fact that it tremendously changed her life, she didn’t give up and made the best of it. She fell in love with the same man she loved before, and even though her memories didn’t magically come back, she made new ones. “I started to love him again. The process took a while, but it was so incredibly worth it.”
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How could she tell stuff so specific as ‘My last clear thought was “that isn’t good….” After that, everything went fuzzy,”’ and then wake up thinkin she was 17 and not remember anything? I dont think anyone could say that kind of thing for her in her place..
I know i girl Who fell into coma after a car accidend (4 People died, 3of them was my class mates and friends, shes the only one survived), after she wake up, she lost her memories for circa two years. She dont remember many of things from that part of her life even today, after eight years, but she have some "flashback" memories, one of them is some fragments from that car accident
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This is just a covert solicitation for their website - https://www.faganelloproductions.com/
fake, just marketing to promote... https://www.faganelloproductions.com... not even a good photographer, all photos are way over exposed.
Hmmmm they made a movie about this I am pretty Adam Sandler was in it.
That movie was 50 first dates and she already had the memory issue before she met him. There was a movie called the vow with the same story line as this
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Their wedding and engagement photography business will really take off now that this story has been released. And undoubtedly book and movie deals will follow. That blow to the head may just be the luckiest thing that has ever happened to a young couple just starting out in life together.
... Money and fame isn't everything. That woman lost several years of her life. Plus there is already a movie and book made based on another couple who went through the same thing (The Vow). I'd prefer having my memories over movie deals and written books, thank you very much.
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And yet she remember how to put on honking great big ol' fake lashes. Phake as P***k.
What's the big deal with the eyelashes? Everyone wears those lol
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This is cute, but I feel like many people are over looking a lot of the struggle - can you imagine how awful it would be to experience this? Essentially, he lost his wife and best friend, her with no memories of anything, including him. On the other hand, she woke up with nothing, and was immediately forced into a relationship with someone that she didn’t feel love for, or even remember. Him trying to piece a broken relationship back together, while knowing that it might never work, or be the same, and her, with basically a stranger she was told to love, and the anxiety you feel knowing you’ve hurt someone. It makes me feel so anxious and sad for them ;( , but because lots of variables lead up to love, and the chance of them getting back together happily was so precarious, it makes me so happy that it all worked out!!
And, for her, if she only reminds things until 17, he must have been seen as an "old man".
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Most amnesia actually stops you creating new memories, not destroying your memory.
I don't really agree with the 'Love is a choice' bit. I mean you love who you love, you don't make a decision to love.
memory is a choice. She just needs to eat more brain food like apple and pan sausages to grow brain particles
Repeat after me, just because someone has had it worse doesn't mean other people's struggles don't matter. People are allowed to talk about their struggles and problems. It isn't a competition. (And she can wear makeup if she damn well wants to)
Load More Replies... How could she tell stuff so specific as ‘My last clear thought was “that isn’t good….” After that, everything went fuzzy,”’ and then wake up thinkin she was 17 and not remember anything? I dont think anyone could say that kind of thing for her in her place..
I know i girl Who fell into coma after a car accidend (4 People died, 3of them was my class mates and friends, shes the only one survived), after she wake up, she lost her memories for circa two years. She dont remember many of things from that part of her life even today, after eight years, but she have some "flashback" memories, one of them is some fragments from that car accident
Load More Replies... This is just a covert solicitation for their website - https://www.faganelloproductions.com/
fake, just marketing to promote... https://www.faganelloproductions.com... not even a good photographer, all photos are way over exposed.
Hmmmm they made a movie about this I am pretty Adam Sandler was in it.
That movie was 50 first dates and she already had the memory issue before she met him. There was a movie called the vow with the same story line as this
Load More Replies... Their wedding and engagement photography business will really take off now that this story has been released. And undoubtedly book and movie deals will follow. That blow to the head may just be the luckiest thing that has ever happened to a young couple just starting out in life together.
... Money and fame isn't everything. That woman lost several years of her life. Plus there is already a movie and book made based on another couple who went through the same thing (The Vow). I'd prefer having my memories over movie deals and written books, thank you very much.
Load More Replies... And yet she remember how to put on honking great big ol' fake lashes. Phake as P***k.
What's the big deal with the eyelashes? Everyone wears those lol
Load More Replies... This is cute, but I feel like many people are over looking a lot of the struggle - can you imagine how awful it would be to experience this? Essentially, he lost his wife and best friend, her with no memories of anything, including him. On the other hand, she woke up with nothing, and was immediately forced into a relationship with someone that she didn’t feel love for, or even remember. Him trying to piece a broken relationship back together, while knowing that it might never work, or be the same, and her, with basically a stranger she was told to love, and the anxiety you feel knowing you’ve hurt someone. It makes me feel so anxious and sad for them ;( , but because lots of variables lead up to love, and the chance of them getting back together happily was so precarious, it makes me so happy that it all worked out!!
And, for her, if she only reminds things until 17, he must have been seen as an "old man".
Load More Replies... Most amnesia actually stops you creating new memories, not destroying your memory.
I don't really agree with the 'Love is a choice' bit. I mean you love who you love, you don't make a decision to love.
memory is a choice. She just needs to eat more brain food like apple and pan sausages to grow brain particles
Repeat after me, just because someone has had it worse doesn't mean other people's struggles don't matter. People are allowed to talk about their struggles and problems. It isn't a competition. (And she can wear makeup if she damn well wants to)
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