A 22-year-old man had to pull out all the stops to make his fiancée fall in love with him every day for two months after she suffered injuries from an accident that left her with a severe case of amnesia, just likeAdam SandlerandDrew Barrymore‘s characters in50 First Dates.
Maruyama says her case was initially so severe that she often forgot what she looked like, but could remember how to do certain physical activities.
“I don’t remember what I look like,” she said during the TBS special. “So I look in the mirror and tell myself, ‘Oh, this is my face.’ What I do remember is what my body remembers. For example, when you use the restroom, I can do that. The most helpful was I remembered how to use my cellphone.”
In the weeks that followed her accident, Maruyama said she would wake up and forget what had happened the day before, and her life was constantly starting over day-to-day.
“It used to be that I forgot what happened the day before so every day was a reset,” she said. “For about two months, I was resetting every day.”
“He liked how I used to be and he told me, ‘I like the way you are now.’ He was the only one who told me that,” said Maruyama, who keeps a daily journal at the urging of her doctors. “That’s when I remember how it felt to like someone. I want to tell him I fell in love with you all over again, for the second time.”
She continued: “I wasn’t the girl I used to be. I was hesitant but he told me, ‘If you don’t have memories, we can make new ones.’ ”
Every morning, Li would begin the routine of reminding his sweetheart who he was, how they had fallen in love and what had happened to her in the accident.
After witnessing his commitment, Maruyama decided to propose to Li, and reaffirm that her love for him had not gone away and so enlisted the show to help her propose at Disneyland as it assists people around the country make their dreams come true.
Li immediately said yes.
Enamored, Henry is determined to make their relationship work, even if that means treating each day as a first date. Love, of course, overcomes their struggles in the end.
source: people.com
