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for the rest of his life. George and an uncle, Bert, also caught the disease, but not as bad. Earl was educated by his mother. He learned to write, then draw, by holding a pen in his mouth, and won a drawing contest in a newspaper. His mother said "His father and I tried to interest Earl in other
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