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TIL a journalist suffered a massive stroke,woke up 20 days later paralyzed,had one eye stitched closed,lost 27 Kgs over 5 months, wrote a book by blinking his left eyelid for ten months four hrs a day, died suddenly 10 days after the book released to excellent reviews,and later a highly rated movie

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