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this movie at the local video store going used for six bucks, so I bought it. And I'm so glad I did.
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Nuthsell: Bob Flanagan became a "supermasochist" largely as a coping mechanism to deal with the constant pain of CF, a disease that usually kills its victims in childhood or by their early twenties. Another coping mechanism was his art, and a
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I have a friend with CF who, when we were in grade school, only had 1/4 of a lung. They kept expecting her to die but she's 42 now. Her screen name is "Wheezer."
I say friend, but actually I didn't like her at all back in school. She was one of those disabled people who bullies people and they can't fight back because you can't hit a disabled person. She'd go around pinching people really hard and they couldn't do anything about it. Now I only know her on Facebook but she seems nice.
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It is definitely hard to watch in places, though. Especially the end.
Re: your friend - I have to think that knowing you're likely to die before anyone else in your peer group wouldn't make you an especially pleasant child to be around, yeah. Glad to hear she's mellowed with age (and survival).
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