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I believe comics
are a form of history...
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that someone somewhere
felt or experienced.
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Then, of course,
those experiences and that history...
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got chewed up in the commercial
machine, got jazzed up...
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made titillating,
cartooned for the sale rack.
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This city has seen its share
of disasters.
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I watched the aftermath
of that plane crash.
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I watched the carnage
of the hotel fiire.
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I watched the news waiting to hear
a very specifiic combination of words...
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but they never came.
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Then one day I saw a news story
about a train accident...
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and I heard them.
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"There is a sole survivor...
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and he is miraculously unharmed."
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I have something called
osteogenesis imperfecta.
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It's a genetic disorder.
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I don't make a particular
protein very well...
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and it makes my bones
very low in density.
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Very easy to break.
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I've had 54 breaks in my life...
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and I have the tamest version
of this disorder, type one.
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There are type two,
type three, type four.
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Type fours don't last very long.
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So that's how it popped into my head.
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If there is someone
like me in the world...
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and I'm at one end
of the spectrum...
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couldn't there be someone else...
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the opposite of me
at the other end?
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Someone who doesn't get sick, who
doesn't get hurt like the rest of us?
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And he probably
doesn't even know it.
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The kind of person
these stories are about.
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A person put here
to protect the rest of us.
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To guard us.
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- You think my dad's a real--
- I don't think anything right now.
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It's a possibility--