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This incredible essay was written by Jemma Leech when she was eight.
ABC News: Autobiography
She is now 10. He story was on World News tonight. I didn't see the story on tv; just by purusing the internet. Her mind and diction are much sharper than mine...and she's only 10!
Her giftedness would be celebrated even if she did not have cerebral palsy. Her thoughts were trapped inside of her until age 5, when she started tapping a xylophone stick.
Her essay (Jemma's autobiography) won out of 1,600 other essays according to this wonderful blog I just found....Patricia E Bauer veteran journalist. She has CP also, and was senior editor of the LA Times Sunday Magazine.
The imagery is applied to her of a great mind trapped inside a broken body. Stereotypical, yes, but that is what it feels like having cerebral palsy. I don't care for the word "trapped", but the angst of the term is what it's like having a body that does not obey the mind.
Broken people in a broken world with wills that won't die.
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