“Okay. CliffsNotes version: Ryn’s the strangest case I’ve ever seen. Her brain isn’t human. I’d bet good money that if you put her into an MRI, the neuroscientist would reach for the whisky in his drawer five seconds later. He wouldn’t even have words to define what he saw. “A concert pianist came to Sacred Oaks a month into Ryn’s stay. She was rapt because she’d never seen a piano before. Three days later, I caught her playing Beethoven in the rec room. Flawlessly. She’s never done it since. She came in with broken English and no reading, writing, or math, and now she nearly has her GED. It
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