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couldn't always sleep, and to cut me off from talking to people... I'm used to being in touch with...

Q:

A myriad...

Lasker:

Lots of friends, yes, and through them with other people; and I was extremely angered about this, very angry at people around me for having allowed this.

Q:

Did Alice have access to you?

Lasker:

Yes, but she didn't see that it was much worse for me to be frustrated than for me to be able to talk to people that I normally would talk to. I was absolutely infuriated about it.

Q:

Which wasn't helpful at that point.

Lasker:

It wasn't at all helpful.

Q:

Did you stay here or did you go on to Greenwich?

Lasker:

I stayed here. Sometimes I went to Greenwich, but most of the time I stayed here. I only got home about the 10th of October, something like that. Then I was interested in whether there was anything that could be said to be good to prevent a second stroke, and I asked a man at the Institute of Neurology in stroke if they had any studies. He said well, they had some studies, and he sent





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