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Chapter 12

“The thing with people suffering from traumatic brain injury,” my doctor told me once, “it’s hard for them to break from routine. Even a trip to a different store, that’ll bring feelings of nervousness and anxiety. Some people with your condition, once you expose them to new things, they start to recover, cognitively at least a little. But what you’re most likely going to feel — the first time you go really far from your usual stomping grounds — might be something…