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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Tue Feb 17, 2015, 07:09 AM Feb 2015

I forgot what I was going to tell you, but my other personality reminded me...

On March 14, 1887, Rhode Island evangelist, Ansel Bourne, woke up in an unfamiliar room in Norristown, Pennsylvania where he could not remember running a confectioner’s and stationary shop for two months under the name of A.J. Brown. His nephew helped him return to Providence where he was diagnosed as a case of dissociative fugue, multiple personalities, and amnesia. Inspired by his story, Robert Ludlum borrowed his surname for his novel, The Bourne Identity.

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I forgot what I was going to tell you, but my other personality reminded me... (Original Post) My Good Babushka Feb 2015 OP

Never knew that's where The Bourne Identity lovemydog Feb 2015 #1

Just to let you know: ret5hd Feb 2015 #2

I'm pleased My Good Babushka Feb 2015 #3

Same here! Raine1967 Feb 2015 #7

Things sure were different back then. hunter Feb 2015 #4

Things were not that different My Good Babushka Feb 2015 #5

I was thinking more like he got a manager job and a room upstairs. hunter Feb 2015 #6

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)

1. Never knew that's where The Bourne Identity

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 07:26 AM

Feb 2015

originated. Wild story. I wonder if he ate a lot of confections & if so, what was in them. Being an evangelist probably didn't help much either.

ret5hd

(20,516 posts)

2. Just to let you know:

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 08:54 AM

Feb 2015

Every time I see a posting by you I open it. It is always something interesting and informative. Thanks.

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

3. I'm pleased

Reply to ret5hd (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 09:06 AM

Feb 2015

that you enjoy them.

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)

7. Same here!

Reply to ret5hd (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 01:12 PM

Feb 2015

hunter

(38,325 posts)

4. Things sure were different back then.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:06 PM

Feb 2015

Imagine waking up one day not knowing who you are, making up some name, and finding work running a confectioner’s and stationary shop.

These days your options would be limited to homeless person holding a cardboard sign, or maybe hustling work in the Home Depot parking lot.

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

5. Things were not that different

Reply to hunter (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:10 PM

Feb 2015

He probably drew his money and resources from his other identity, which he kept concealed, either from other people, through deception. Or through compartmentalizing his thinking, he may have obscured it from himself. Even then, you couldn't open a store with zero resources.

hunter

(38,325 posts)

6. I was thinking more like he got a manager job and a room upstairs.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:22 PM

Feb 2015

Even so, leasing or purchasing retail space today isn't going to happen without a very solid identity.

Maybe he claimed to be representing in some way his other identity.

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