Perhaps it should not be surprising that “The Vow” topped the box office during the weekend before Valentine’s Day. The $41.7 million that the love story pulled in opening weekend is the biggest opening weekend for any movie so far this year. There have been countless productions from Hollywood attempting to depict memory loss, and “The Vow” is another one based on a real-life story, this one of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter. In the film version, the recently married couple is involved in a car crash that causes Rachel McAdams’ character to suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and forget the past five years of her life. In real life, Krickitt Carpenter had no memory of the two years leading up to the accident. While many movies based on real-life events have played fast and loose with some of the facts, CNN mental health expert Dr. Charles Raison wrote on…
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