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Re: Has your life changed?

From: John Ravenscroft
Date: 03 Oct 2004
Time: 21:34:14 -0500
Remote Name: 195.92.67.79

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Hi, Ashley. Yes, many of the people closest to me didn't know I had a problem. I can't remember when I told my wife (it was years ago) but we'd been together quite a while and she didn't know about it. My oldest friend (I've known him since we were both 11 and at school together) read Tongue Tied and said I was lying! 'You don't have a stutter,' he said. 'I've never heard you stutter once in forty years!' As to how I was able to keep my secret for so long, see my answer to Mary Brooks. Reading aloud in public was always my biggest dread - especially if the listeners had the text in front of them - because if I blocked on a particular word there was no way out. They could all see the word, and would know I wasn't able to say it. John.


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