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A week ago Monday my sister underwent surgery to clear up a brain aneurysm. The surgery went fine, but afterward she suffered a massive stroke. She has been left with her right side completely paralyzed, her speech lost, unable to swallow, and her vision severely impaired to an unknown degree.

The surgery has an excellent safety record, so we were certainly not expecting this. She is a brilliant, contentious and vital person. What has happened to her seems utterly fantastic, like a nightmare that has broken through into reality and won’t go away.

Last Wednesday night, it seemed as if she would pass away. Late that night, however, she appeared stable, so we went to bed.
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Two months after being found close to death, a Wolf Boy who lived in the forests of Transylvania for years with wild dogs after running away from home is returning to his family.

The boy?s mother, Lina Caldarar, has been reunited with Traian, age seven. The feral gypsy child was found by a shepherd two months ago, barely alive, naked and huddled in a cardboard box. He was the size of a three-year-old and had forgotten how to speak.

His mother says she left her husband home three years ago after he beat her. She believes Traian ran away for the same reason.
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A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching over 3,000 miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain. It’s the largest group of ants ever recorded, according to Swiss, French and Danish scientists. The colony consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests, and they all cooperate with one another.

Normally, ants from different nests fight with each other. But the researchers think the ants in the supercolony are all close enough genetically to recognize one another as part of the same family, despite being from different nests with different queens.
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Chester Moore Jr. reports in Texas Fish & Game Magazine that last year, residents of Sabine, Texas reported seeing a gray, ape-like creature in the area?s dense forests. The local newspaper called the creature the ?Sabine Thing.?

A similar beast called the ?Caddo Critter? is said to have inhabited the area around Caddo Lake in the 1970?s. The Sulphur River along the Texas-Arkansas border has been a source of similar sightings for decades.
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