"By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953."
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"Johnny, on the face of it, appeared to be the antithesis of everything a good teacher should be."
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"God has put his mark on my Johnny and I rejoice."
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"She read a good deal about head injuries, homeless, and brain damage. None of it was very encouraging."
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"He was alone now, walking down this gloomy and deserted hall of shadows. And it began to seem to him that it wasn't an illusion or a mirage or a dream - at least not of the ordinary kind."
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"The faces, like the voices, began to come clearer with time."
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"He's going to have enough to do just coping with the idea that he's been out like a light for...