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TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.

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