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Reggie’s accident certainly is numbing, the shock factor that follows is very believable. Although a real case of “amnesia” is not really possible, the shock factor of what happened is enough to make anyones’ reality a little hazy and difficult to comprehend. I do side with Reggie in his difficulty to piece the events, right before the accident and during, together. I do think this shock is temporarily forgivable but Reggie must do his best to recover and do his best to truthfully piece his reality back together to bring light to the accident and provide an explanation to what happened. I have never had a close call super similar to Reggie’s, but I have been in an accident that has brought similar haze to my memory during the events of my accident. My junior year of high school I was involved in a car accident that ultimately left me with a broken foot after everything was said and done. I was riding on the back of my best friend’s bumper as he backed out of his parking spot at school and he too became distracted by something, whether it was his sister in the truck with him or my other friends standing on both sides of his vehicle, I don’t know, but he ended up backing me into an SUV in the spaces behind him and I was partially crushed. I remember everything leading up to the accident vividly but the moments, even seconds, right before impact become extremely hazy and hard to recall. I didn’t hit my head or pass out from excruciating pain, I just went into shock. That event is something I had never experienced before and I believe I was overcome with fear. Just like Reggie this amount of shell shock can and will do a number on your memory. As of right now in the book, from what I have read, Reggie is still experiencing this shock and hopefully can snap out of it sooner than later to help solve the cause of this tragic accident.