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Posted on June 27, 2007

Some years ago while visiting us at the beach, Jim s best friend an artist named Mike -upbraided us for talking about Charlie in the third person in Charlie s own presence: Never talk about him in front of himself! At the time, I pointed out how Charlie only seemed able to follow directions that we had spent hours teaching him, or to recognize that table meant the four-legged thing we ate on as a result of showing him numerous photos of tables and saying variations on point to the table! , touch the table! , etc.. We kept our sentences short and direct, and our ar...

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