Doodle's Loss Of Heart Trouble

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“Never let your pride keep something broken that your heart wants to fix.” The story was published in 1960, it is a tragic story of a child named Doodle, conceived with a restorative spinal condition, who defeats some of his difficulties just to be rushed to death by his good-natured yet self-consumed unnamed older brother, Brother. The story doesn't specifically say how Doodle dies, but clearly, he was sincerely powerless, making it impossible to live without his older sibling's acknowledgment. While he sustains a few wounds during the storm, which are evident since he was bleeding from his mouth, I think he could have recouped if his older brother came to him. It is clear that Doodle does die of heart trouble, but not of a heart attack,

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