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Vanishing act by Paul Collins

She had just turned twelve.

The House Without Windows appeared in February 1927 to overwhelming praise. “A Mirror of the Child Mind,” announced a New York Times headline: “the most authentic and unalloyed document of a transient and hitherto unrecorded phase in plastic intelligence…[a] truly remarkable little book.”

On the ordinary yet unfulfilled needs of extraordinary child prodigies. Ah, life.

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