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Autopsy

Miranda Doyle

2002

I decide I want to see what is left of my father.

His brain lies in the Glasgow Southern General Neuro Pathology Department, donated to science in 2002. He died of a fast growing brain cancer. A tumour wove insidiously through the folds of cortex above his left ear. It became enmeshed with his synapses, flowering like deceit. ... (continues)

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