Awakenings

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…others. After summer the drug wore off all of them. All of the patients returned to the crippled state. Dr. Sawyer asked out one of the nurses and they went out for a cup of coffee. Dr. Sawyer and his staff kept working with the post-encephalitic patients, trying new drug treatments as they became available. Leonard and many of the other patients experienced brief periods of awakenings, but never as dramatic as the summer of 1969.