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Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia caught measles when she was seven. His account of it always makes me cry: "one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery,
by ranko 8y ago
Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia caught measles when she was seven. His account of it always makes me cry:
"one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.
'I feel all sleepy,' she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead."
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