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...history goes back to March of 1962 when five-year-old Roger Arntsen slipped into Trondheim's ice-choked Nidelven River. By the time Dr. Tone Dahl Kvittingen (pronounced Quitting-un) arrived, the boy was apparently dead. His skin was blue-white, his pupils were widely dilated, and though the policeman who had hauled him from the water had made an attempt at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Roger had not responded because his mouth and windpipe were clogged with vomit. Worst of all, the Nidelven is a fresh-water river. And fresh water, when inhaled into the lungs, does...
Then, six weeks after his accident, Roger's mental condition improved as inexplicably as it had deteriorated. He began to speak. Soon he regained vision for near objects, and later for distant ones. Detailed examinations since he was drowned show that Roger Arntsen is still a bit clumsy with his fingers, and has lost some peripheral vision, but he seems to be normal in every other way. He will start school in the fall...
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