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Jack Henry Abbott

“...[It comes] from so deep inside you, you cannot locate the source of the pain … The muscles of your jawbone go berserk, so that you bite the inside of your mouth and your jaw locks and the pain throbs. … Your spinal column stiffens so that you can hardly move your head or your neck and sometimes your back bends like a bow and you cannot stand up. … You ache with restlessness, so you feel you have to walk, to pace. And then as soon as you start pacing, the opposite occurs to you; you must sit and rest. Back and forth, up and down you go … you cannot get relief …”

Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison by Jack Henry Abbott
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