His Fake Illness, Her Real Heartbreak The Betrayal I Never Saw Coming

My husband had a strange illness.

When it flared up, he could recognize everyone around him—everyone except me.

He'd point at a flower girl on the street and say, "That's my wife, Maud Fox."

Yet he'd completely ignore me, the woman being harassed by a drunk, begging him for help.

He'd mistake total strangers for me.

But the moment someone called me by my name, he'd come at me with a knife.

"You think you can impersonate my wife?"

To cure him, I tried everything. I prayed at every temple, knelt at every altar, and spent two full years chasing down every folk remedy I could find.