From the Preface: "I read somewhere that Natalie Wood had a life-long fear of dark, deep ocean water - right up to the night she drowned off Catalina Island. I don't know if that is true, but I do know that I had a life-long fear of ending up in a wheelchair like my uncle. This despite all the doctors' assurances at the time that my uncle's condition was spontaneous and non-hereditary. They were technically correct; my condition is not the same as my uncle's. It is, though, similar in its effects. But that is not the end of the story. Nor is it the beginning. My condition (Friedreich's...
From the Preface: "I read somewhere that Natalie Wood had a life-long fear of dark, deep ocean water - right up to the night she drowned off Catalina ...
