Awakenings
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She is looking out the...
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- I want to know more about your son.
- Certainly.

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Something was wrong with his hands.
He could not write anymore.

:27:49
He could not do the work.
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I should take him out of school,
they said. He was eleven.

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Slowly, he got worse.
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He would call me and I would come in
and he was sitting at his desk -

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- in a trance. One hour, two hours...
Then he would be okay again.

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One day I came home from work
and found him in his bed.

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He kept saying, "Mum, mum?"...
His arm was like this, reaching.

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"What do you want, Leonard?"
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He never spoke again.
It was as if he disappeared.

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Later, that year,
I took him to Bainbridge.

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It was... November 14, 1939.
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He was twenty years old.
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What did he do for those nine years
in this room?

:28:48
He read. He loved to read.
He read all the time.

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Really?
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That was all he could do.

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