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From my artist's statement for Interfictions 2: Epileptics live in a very interstitial state, slipping from world to world with little or no warning.
Odin's Day justbeast 2009
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Epileptics, too, she says, and looks straight at Esther.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Using the eugenics policies that Virginia had back then, thousands of people deemed by the state to be "unfit to reproduce," including many poor white people with low IQ's, were committed to places like the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in Amherst County, where they were surgically sterilized without their consent.
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Epileptics, too -- the amount of flashing, flickering, fritzing bright white and intense primary colors makes this a tough flick to endure.
Answers in a drop of blood txtriffidranch 2008
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Epileptics in her time were not supposed to marry, and some American states passed laws against it.
Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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Epileptics, too, she says, and looks straight at Esther.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Epileptics are, like all persons with illnesses, especially illnesses of the brain and mind, totally powerless over their illnesses.
TEXAS FAITH: Do we put too great a premium on our biological lives? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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On a cloudy afternoon on October 19, 1927, as a chilly autumn wind swept down off the Blue Ridge Mountains, rattling the windows of the infirmary at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded, Dr. John H. Bell jotted a few notes about an operation he had performed earlier that day.
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In reality, Buck was at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded because she had been raped and impregnated by the nephew of her foster family the year before.
Archive 2008-11-01 Kay Olson 2008
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In reality, Buck was at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded because she had been raped and impregnated by the nephew of her foster family the year before.
New book on Buck v. Bell Kay Olson 2008
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