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"What would he be to any of them? Would they like him less? More? Or would he discover -- as he often feared -- that what he understood as friendship was really motivated by their pity of him? How much of who he was inextricable from what he was unable to? Who would he have been, who would he be, without the scars, the cuts, the hurts, the sores, the fractures, the infections, the splints, and the discharges?"