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I think it's a little more complicated than losing the memory - or to be more precise, it seems to be a matter of losing small but very important bits in somewhat large spans of time. It's good to remember that the MC's perspective is that of a man in his 40s now trying to remember things from his early adolescence or infancy.
Him missing a lot of details that should have been important at the time but become what seem weird gaps 3+ decades later is not exactly shocking (not like i can't relate at all with that...), specially when one considers the whole transformation of their relationship dynamics implied with Vicky's story. A whole lifetime had passed and the bully who made his teenage life hell and worse had stuck front & center, washing away almost everything else - like the fact she wasn't a random bully and that his younger self (at least in the begining) let itself be pushed by Vicky (at least in the begining) out of guilt/shame over how he ruined things with the girl who had once been his best childhood friend. Over a crush on Cathrine that never went anywhere, might be said.
The whole death spiral of misteps, loss of confidence, tsundere teasing turned into actual resentful bullying and so on, completely lost with only the broadest strokes of misery preserved. Except he comes back and now discovers he knew himself much less than he ever imagined and needs to unravel a lot of stuff because, surprise, surprise, 3+ decades old memories can have a ridiculous amount of detail missing.
Damn, Emily and Stephanie are evidence aplenty of how his original past self could be dense and oblivious at times.
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