FDR had polio, and amputation was not seen as a choice.
(When I was five, I had osteomyelitis, a cousin to polio that attacks the bones, rather than the muscles. According to the attending physicians, I came within mere weeks, perhaps days, of losing my right leg below the knee.)
Another point on Stan: Isn't it a testament to the power of those characters that they could have credible references such as Hitler/FDR and a generation later King/X? You'd think that would be the more relevant credit.
When I was about 12, a friend of my mother’s, a nurse, noted that she had never known anyone who’d had osteomyelitis in one leg and not ended up with a limp. Which I did not have.
Or so I thought.
Cut to eight years later, my first day at Art College. Walking on the granite floors in my hard-soled shoes I heard the sound of my own footsteps, tick tick-tick tick tick-tick
I really love Jean's body language on today's page! Reminds me of a former young lady in my life who would remove her scarf like that. And the way Jean looks so weary really sells her mood.
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