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bjbjD My early life was probably fairly typical of most kids. I had polio when I was two.
I spent four months in a what actually was a TB sanatorium that had been converted to
a children s hospital because of the polio epidemic. 1952 was one the last major polio
epidemics in the country I think. And so I was taken care of by Catholic nuns in this
hospital St. John s Hospital for Crippled Children is what it was then. I don t remember
any of it. My earliest memory that has anything to do with disability was when I was probably
3 maybe 4, when my mom would get the other kids off to school, she would put me on the
kitchen table and we would do physical therapy. And so my earliest memory is her trying to
find me. Like I would crawl under the bed and hide and I would get in the closet and
put covers put quilts and stuff over me so she wouldn t see me - kept trying to hide
from the physical therapy. So that s my earliest disability-related memory is trying to hide
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