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...talk about this before midnight," he said, "I'll kill the girl." He turned Gilbert loose, and got on a Washington-bound bus with Carolyn. "I know a cheap hotel," he confided. "I'll kill you if you scream." When they walked into the lobby, she winked desperately at a lounging marine; the marine simply winked back. She wept when Irwin shut the door of their room. She was forced to submit to him four more times during the night...
...Carolyn Bigham graduated from Central High School in Charlotte, N.C. last year, just before her 19th birthday, and went to work in the flower department of a local store. Last month Carolyn had survived a grave illness and was just finishing grammar school again...
First Word. But when Carolyn Bigham regained consciousness, she hardly knew who she was. She recognized her mother & father (a postman) and some of her six brothers & sisters, but could not speak their names. Even after she was sent home, five weeks passed before she uttered a word: "Water." Said her mother: "That was the most welcome sound I ever heard...
...meningococcus had passed from the brain covering into the brain itself. Some memory cells may have been destroyed; certainly many were damaged, especially in Carolyn's speech center. When her doctor, William Ranson, asked her how old she was, she answered, "Fourteen." She later explained: "I'd mean to say one thing but say something else, even though I knew I was saying it wrong...
First Grade. Last winter Carolyn went back to the beginning. Her family got her a special teacher. Carolyn learned the alphabet again, then learned to count up to 31 by reading the calendar. After two weeks her teacher jumped her to second grade. A few weeks later, in fourth grade, Carolyn wrote: "I like to sew. I like to go uptown. I want to go to the Bonclarken Conference [of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church]. I like to ride a bicycle." By the beginning of summer, Carolyn had sailed successfully through eight grades...