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５０次初恋
作者：杨思晴
在前一天邂逅了金发公主露茜的亨利，第二天，一心想着佳人有约，早早就来到了咖啡馆。不过故事的发展似乎有些变数……
【原声重现】
Henry: My fingers are extra fishy today, if you care to take a whiff...
Lucy: What was that?
Henry: I was petting my walrus all morning and thinking of you the whole time.
Lucy: Ok, pervert. I think that you should leave.
Henry: What? I was joking because of what we talked about yesterday.
Lucy: Yesterday? I've never even met you. Nick, I need help!
Nick: Coming Lucy.
The Storekeeper: Nick, put that down, I'll handle it. You (to Ross), follow me.
Henry: Wait a ...What's going on? (to Lucy) I was kidding around with you! (To the lady) What's happening here? Is she crazy or something?
The Storekeeper: Lucy is a very special person. Very different from other people.
Henry: Ok.
The Storekeeper: About a year ago, Lucy was in a terrible car accident. She and her father went up North Shore to get a pineapple... Her father broke some ribs, but Lucy suffered a serious head injury. She lost her short-term memory.
Henry: So, she can't remember anything?
The Storekeeper: No, no no, she has all of her long-term memory. That's a different part of the brain. Her whole life, up to the night before the accident, she remembers. She just can't retain any new information. It's like her slate gets wiped clean every night while she sleeps 1.
Henry: Hole on. This sounds like something I would tell a psycho girl, so she'd stop calling me. Am I the psycho girl 2?
The Storekeeper: I wish I was making this up! She has no memory that she ever met you.
Henry: What about the pineapple-picking thing?
The Storekeeper: She says that every day, because each morning she wakes up thinking it's October 13th of last year. She comes for breakfast because that's what she did on Sunday, and October 13th was a Sunday. She has no idea it's more that a year later.
Henry: She reads the newspaper.
The Storekeeper: It's a special paper her father puts on their porch every night. It's from the day of her accident. He got hundreds of them printed out. Lucy does the same thing every day.
【锁定译文】
亨利：今天我的手有多余的鱼腥味儿，如果你想闻闻的话……
露茜：你什么意思？
亨利：今天早晨我照顾我的海象的时候一直在想着你……
露茜：真不正常。我觉得你应该离开这里。
亨利：什么？我这不是在拿昨天咱们聊天的内容跟你开个玩笑吗？
露茜：昨天？我从来没见过你这个人。尼克，我需要你的帮助！
尼克：我来了，露茜。
店主：尼克，把东西放下，让我来处理这个问题。你（指指亨利），跟我来。
亨利：（对露茜）等等，这是怎么搞的？我不就是跟你开个玩笑吗？（对店主）这到底是怎么回事啊？她是疯了还是怎么回事啊？
店主：露茜是个非常特别的女孩。她和其他人完全不同……
亨利：好，你接着说。
店主：大约一年前，露茜遇上了一场严重的车祸。她和她爸爸去北岸去取菠萝。她爸爸断了几根骨头，但露茜的头部受了重伤。她失去了短期的记忆力。
亨利：你的意思是说，她什么都不记得了吗？
店主：不，不。长期的记忆她是有的。那是她大脑中的另外一个部分。也就是说，车祸发生前所有的生活，她是记得的。只是她的大脑中完全不能保存新的信息。就像是在她睡觉时有把刷子，每天都把新发生的事情刷得干干净净的一样。
亨利：等等。你这套说辞我在想方设法摆脱那些对我死缠烂打的姑娘的时候也用过。你是不是把我当成傻子，涮我玩儿呢？
店主：我也希望这是我在编故事，她没有遇到你的那段记忆。
亨利：那取菠萝的事情又是怎么回事？
店主：她每天都这么说，因为她每天醒来都以为是去年10月13号。她来我这里吃早餐，因为出车祸以前她每周日都会来这里吃早餐。她完全不知道都已经过了一年多了……
亨利：可是她读报啊！
店主：这是她爸爸专门做的，每天晚上会放在她家门前。报纸是她出车祸那天的版本，她爸爸印刷了上百份。每天露茜都在重复做同样的事情。
这就难怪这一次亨利和露茜再次相遇碰了一鼻子灰了。有个韩国影片名为《记忆中的橡皮擦》，露茜车祸后得的怪病就好像脑海中有个橡皮擦，每天夜晚记忆便被抹去，重新归零，留不下任何痕迹。这么说来，亨利和露茜的那次咖啡馆邂逅，之于露茜而言，就好像从未发生过。美好的故事似乎才刚刚开始，可是忽然遇上了这样的突发状况，该怎样继续才好呢？
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