![]() ![]() So you have to become this person who picks up on things. All the conversation about you and your illness and your symptoms and your prospects are all done elsewhere - they're all told to your parents when you're not in the room. ![]() ![]() On overhearing a nurse say she was going to die when she was hospitalized with encephalitis, a virus in her cerebellum, at age 8Īs a child nobody tells you things. I could sense it, and I said to them, "He has killed someone, hasn't he?" And they wouldn't tell me anything, but then a few days later I read in the newspaper that a girl had been killed, that she had been raped and then strangled and then buried not very far from where I had been walking. didn't tell me anything, but they asked me about the incident in very close detail and then asked me to look at some photographs and to say if I saw the person with the binoculars among these photographs, which I did, and I pointed him out. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title I Am, I Am, I Am Subtitle Seventeen Brushes with Death Author Maggie O'Farrell ![]()
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