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By Tao Lin“In middle school, when no one was home, I would lay facing Binky as he lay flat on his side on the carpet. ‘I love you,’ I would say.”
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By Marlene Morgan“ ‘I said, you know, thank goodness it’s not autism,’ Jenny said, so exuberantly that it took Marion a moment to register the joke.”
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