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The Rolling Quadruplegia
When lawrence was five, he was a literal poster child for the united fund charity because he was born with ceribl palsy. Lawrence would go on to study the way disabled people were portrayed in the movies and on television as an adult. He's communications director for the e writes, an education defense fund. In 19 72, there was a controversy around the jerry lewis telephone, where jerry leWis said, the man upstairs goft. I think the man upstairsGoft made a mistake,. And i think he put people like myself and all these lovely people at the celebrity phones here to repair that goof.
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