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Bright Boy: A Tourette's Life

K.E. Semmel

A substack primarily about living with Tourette syndrome (and other misadventures).

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The stegosaurus-like humps of the mythic creatures at Chimney Bluffs State Park.

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Mom and Dad at our Washington, DC apartment, September 2010 (Note the notebook and pen in Dad’s breast pocket)

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Out of darkness we are born, into darkness we die. In between there is light.

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