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Artist's brain damaged by illness and healed with...Crossword Puzzles?


Artist Lonni Sue Johnson contracted viral encephalitis in 2007 that destroyed her hippocampus and parts of her left temporal lobe. When she re-learned how to speak a year later, she could not use nouns. Johnson became obsessed with words, language, and word puzzles. It has helped her to start creating art again. Read the amazing, heartbreaking, bizarre story.  

Via KUHF News

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