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Why the woman who won the Nobel Prize for Literature wears boxing gloves

Carson has Parkinson’s disease and says that it’s “all but impossible” to worry about the “black doorway” of death when someone has strapped a boxing glove onto your hand.

Why the woman who won the Nobel Prize for Literature wears boxing gloves

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