"Maybe," he said.
"It's the best we can do for now," she said. She was typing again.
He paused at the door. "If Dave is a human being," he said, "we can't very well send him to a circus."
"Oh no," Lynn said. "No, no. Dave lives with us. He's part of our family now - thanks to you. We have no choice."
Henry went outside. Tracy and her friends were standing beneath the tree, pointing into the branches. "Look at the monkey! Look at him!"
"No," Henry said to them. "He's not a monkey. And please don't embarrass him. Dave suffers from a rare genetic syndrome..." And he explained it to them, as they listened wide-eyed.
Jamie hada trundle bed that he used when friends slept over. Lynn pulled it out, and Dave slept on it, alongside Jamie. His last words were "It's very soft," and almost immediately he was asleep, while Lynn ran her hands soothingly through his hair. Jamie said, "This is so neat, Mom. It's like having a brother."
"It is, isn't it," she said.
She turned out the light and closed the door. When she looked back in on them later, she found that Dave had twisted his sheets into a circle around him, making a kind of nest in the middle of the bed.
"No," Tracy said,standing in the kitchen, hands on hips. "No, he cannot live in our house. How could you do this to me, Dad?"
"Do what?"
"You know what the other kids are going to say. He's a monkey that looks like a person, Dad. And he sounds like you with a stuffy nose." She was near tears. "He's related to you, isn't he? He has your genes."
"Now, Tracy..."
"I amso embarrassed." She started to sob. "I had a chance to be a freshman cheerleader."
"Tracy," he said, "I'm sure you will - "
"This was my year, Dad!"
"It's still your year."
"Not if I have a monkey in my house!"
She went to the refrigerator for a Coke, came back, still sobbing. That was when her mother walked in. "He's not a monkey," Lynn said firmly. "He is an unfortunate young boy who suffers from a serious disease."
"Oh, sure, Mom."
"Go look it up yourself. Google it."
"I will!" Still sobbing, she walked over to the computer. Henry glanced at Lynn, then moved to look over his daughter's shoulder.
Hypertrichosis Variant Disorder Reported 1923 (Hungary)
Gandler-Kreukheim Syndromeon Monday [email protected]:05pm Doubtless the hirsuitism is secondary to QT/TD. The Hungarian cases showed no induration, according to 1923...
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Gandler-Kreukheim Syndrome - Inuit Lawsuit (1944)
In the hectic days of World War II, the young Inuit boy suffering fromGandler-Kreukheim in the northern Alaska town of Sanduk was treated by a local...
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Prostitute Gives Birth to Ape Child in Beijing
New China Post reports an infant with chimp-like hair and large hands and feet, born to a Mongolian prostitute who claims to have mated with a Russian ape for money. Question whether this isGandler-Kreukheim syndrome, extremely rare condition...
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The Delhi "Monkey Man" - A New Case of Gandler-Kreukheim?
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Gandler-Kreukheim Syndrome - From Belgium
Looking like a monkey, the young boy's picture appeared widely in the Brussels press as well as publications in Paris and Bonn. After 1989 the child, whose name was Gilles, disappeared from public view...(Translated)
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Ressemblant à un singe, l'image du jeune gar?on est apparue partout dans la presse de Bruxelles comme les publications dispersees à Paris et à Bonn. Après 1989, l'enfant dont le nom etait Gilles, est disparu de la vue publique...
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"I had no idea," Tracy said, staring at the screen. "There have only been four or five cases in all of history. That poor kid!"
"He's very special," Henry said. "I hope you will treat him better now." He put his hand on Tracy's shoulder and glanced back at his wife. "All this in a couple of hours?"
"I've been busy," she said.
CHapter 037
There werefifty reporters in the conference room of Shanghai's Hua Ting Hotel, sitting at row after row of green felt-covered tables. The TV cameras were all at the back of the room, and sitting on the floor up front were the cameramen, with their bulky telephoto lenses.
Strobes flashed as Professor Shen Zhihong, head of the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, in Shanghai, stepped up to the microphones. Wearing a black suit, Shen was a distinguished-looking man, and his English was excellent. Before becoming the head of IBCB, he had spent ten years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a professor of cell biology at MIT.
"I do not know whether I am telling you good news or bad news," he said. "But I suspect it may be disappointing news. Nevertheless, I will set certain rumors finally to rest."
For some reason, he explained, rumors of unethical research in China began to circulate after the 12th East Asia Joint Symposium on Biomedical Research at Shaoxing City, in Zhejiang Province. "I have no idea why," Shen said. "The conference was quite ordinary, and technical in nature." However, at the next conference, in Seoul, reporters from Taiwan and Tokyo were asking pointed questions.