Martin Pistorius was twelve years old in 1988 when a mild illness turned into something terrifying. A sore throat became a fever. The fever became collapse. Doctors searched for answers, naming possibilities—meningitis, tuberculosis—but certainty never came. What did come was a sentence that changed everything: irreversible vegetative state. To the world, Martin disappeared. He was moved between care centers, placed in a wheelchair, left in front of televisions or bare walls. No one spoke to him
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