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Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill
Novelist, Essayist, Memoirist
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Aug. 27 2026
No Such Thing: A True Story of "Mild" Traumatic Brain Injury and My Twenty-Year (so far) Recovery

Lynne Melcombe

It was supposed to be a routine parent-teacher meeting on an unremarkable day. It turned into years of pain and disability. It also turned into years of learning, day after day, that there is no such thing as a “mild” traumatic brain injury. That was over 20 years ago, and Lynne…

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