Man and beast by alan rabinowitz leukemia
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Alan Rabinowitz - Man and Beast
I was five years old, standing in the old great cat house at the Bronx Zoo, staring into the face of an old female jaguar.
I remember looking at the bare walls and the bare ceiling, wondering what the animal had done to get itself there.
Man and beast by alan rabinowitz leukemia
I leaned in a little towards the cage and started whispering something to the jaguar. But my father came over quickly and asked, “What are you doing?” I turned to him to try to explain, but my mouth froze, as I knew it would, because everything about my young childhood at that time was characterized by the inability to speak.
From the earliest time that I tried to speak, I was handicapped with a severe, severe stutter. Not the normal kind of repetitious ba-ba-ba kinds of stutter that many stutterers have or many children go through, but the complete blockage of airflow and where if I try to push words out, my head would spasm and my body would spasm.
Nobody knew what to do with me.
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