en he was hunched over it in the hour before bedtime
struggling with the right way to say something or trying to figure out what should happen next in
the story he was writing. Eventually these passedtoo.
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That eeriephantom chirruping sound — the sound of squadrons of sparrows on the wing — did
not recur at all following the operation.
He continued to writegaining confidence and polishing his emerging styleand he sold his first
story — to American Teen — six years after his real life began. After thathe just never looked
back.
So far as his parents or Thad himself ever knewa small benign tumor had been removed from
the prefrontal lobe of his brain in the autumn of his eleventh year. When he thought about it at all
(which he did less and less frequently as the years passed)he thought only that he had been
extremely lucky to survive.
Many patients who underwent brain surgery in those primitive days did not.
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