[Magdalen] A prayer, please

[Sibyl Smirl]

Hi, Arthur, nice to meet you.
I will pray for your calm and acceptance.

I once knew a girl who was born without a tailbone, and she didn't know 
it until she had some x-rays for a physical for college acceptance. 
She'd never missed it. I was not in touch with her after that year of 
college, so I don't know whether she ever got around to missing it.

I thought that I was normal for 63 years (I'm 71 now), and then found 
out that I was born with Asperger's Syndrome.  Nobody was diagnosing it 
at all for most of my life.  It was actually a great relief to me to 
find it out: it explained a lot about what I thought were just 
individual personality quirks, and oddnesses in my memories.

James was referring to an urban legend common a few years ago, when 
there was (maybe still is) a big black market with huge prices for 
kidneys and maybe other organs for transplants.  The story commonly went 
around of people whose (one) kidneys were stolen for that black market 
(since you only need one), with that "awakening" scene, the ice for the 
purpose of stemming bleeding during the time period that they were 
unattended, the surgery very crude.  I think I've seen a couple of tv 
cop shows based on the story, too.  Don't know whether it was ever 
documented to have happened.


On 8/30/15 10:39 PM, Arthur Laurent wrote:
> Hi, James. I'm glad to admit that I have no idea what you're talking about (some movie reference, perhaps.)...
>
> I've never been in a hospital for an overnight stay, and rarely in a hotel. And I know the stories behind each of my scars.
>
> Here I was, thinking I was "normal"... And all of a sudden, NOT.
>
> Arthur
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Aug 30, 2015, at 10:12 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't suppose you have any memory of awakening in a bath tub, filled with
>> ice, in some hotel room....
>
>


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