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Ann M. Bauer teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University. Her work has appeared in the Fourth Genre and River Teeth, and online at the Atlantic Unbound and Salon. She divides her time between Providence, Rhode Island, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This was before autism was in the news, before one out of every 166 babies born in America was being diagnosed with some form of it. The movie Rain Man was my only point of reference.
February 2007Sometimes I tell them my husband is dead. More often I say he’s working out of town. Or that he’s ill and in a hospital receiving treatment. None of these things is true. Or maybe one of them is. They all could be.
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