Amnesiac identified
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Denver
A man who checked himself into a Denver hospital last September, saying he could not remember who he was or how he got to Denver, was identified this week by his fiancée in Olympia, Wash. Jeff Ingram, a 40-year-old machinist, said he found himself one morning in Denver without a memory, wallet, or identification. Doctors diagnosed his condition as “dissociative fugue,” whose symptoms include amnesia and a tendency to wander. His case was featured on several newscasts, one of which was viewed by his fiancée, Penny Hansen, who contacted police. Ingram returned to Olympia this week, but does not remember his fiancée or anything else about his life. Hansen said Ingram also disappeared for nine months in 1995, after going out on an errand.
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