Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three months after the shooting, Charles Stuart's brother produced evidence that Stuart had shot himself and his wife as part of a scheme to collect insurance money. Soon afterward, Charles Stuart committed suicide...
...have different perspectives. Stevens, the hardest hit of the trio, was the most affected by the robbery: "It's nothing I would expect to have happen, especially here. To have it happen in the first month of school, it jars you." Gibson says he "felt vulnerable for three days afterward" but doesn't any longer. Rubin, a native New Yorker, was the least affected of the three. "It is a little unsettling to think that someone was in our room while we slept, but I still feel safe so long as we take certain precautions...
...Whateverrrr." Marty Walter, eyebrows arched, is imitating one of her biology students who had the nerve to yell it at her in class. Recounting this to her colleagues at lunch is her way of venting. It took strength, when the boy talked to her afterward, not to throw "whatever" back in his face. Her fellow teachers hoot at the mere thought: Oh, how good it would feel--just once--to tell off the little suckers...
...played at his funeral. He was hospitalized and released a few days later. When his girlfriend's parents wouldn't let him see her because he was acting unstable, Matt threatened to kill them, but instead slit his wrists. The police came, and once again he was hospitalized. Shortly afterward, Matt overdosed on cold medication...
Damasio cites the case of a young woman who at age 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, entered a netherworld of nonstop epileptic seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...