The Salis Short Story

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[caught?] it from the [Salis?]. We lived downtown that was visted by the [Salis?] many times and I and my brother we were taken into hospital, where we were both blind for about a year, and then my mother took us out because she didn't see any progress in it and we went to eye doctor who treated my brother for a few years and he was better and then me until about my tenth year and then declared okay. I still have sometime when I'm very tired or when something with my eyes happened the eye doctor can tell that I was a glaucoma patient once. That happened so from my third to my tenth year I went to a regular elementary school and from there downtown where as I said downtown-- Old Amsterdam which you would call here the [slumps?]. That's where

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