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At one point after surgery, she couldnt remember her full name and often feared for her life.
I sipped on morphine in between interviews.
Clarkes surgeries were not easy.
Would it be concentration?
Now I tell people that what it robbed me of is good taste in men.
But, of course, none of this seemed remotely funny at the time.
Read her entire account of her experience inThe New Yorkerhere.
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