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Becoming doubly incontinent.
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I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
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To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
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