Amnesia: Writing Prompt Series #1

In an effort to restart my writing engine, I'm doing a nightly writing prompt. I'll be posting the resulting paragraphs here, no matter how rough.

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Prompt: Write about the first memory that comes back to an amnesiac

I'd hoped I'd remember something about myself. An insight, a place, or hell, my name. Instead his face rose in my mind, a shape darkening the blank space, all angles and crevices in the soothing white snow. I must have gasped because the doctor asked "What is it? What do you remember?"

"My teacher," I said. "The one who taught me to forget."