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b'For Educational Purposes and inspirational materials . The Creators own their music/songs, etc. ("In this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption.\\n\\nAt twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital\\u2014or ice pick\\u2014lobotomy.\\n\\nAbandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn\\u2019t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the \\u201cnormal\\u201d life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why?\\n\\nThere were only three people who would know the truth: Freeman, the man who performed the procedure; Lou, his cold and demanding stepmother who brought Howard to the doctor\\u2019s attention; and his father, Rodney. Of the three, only Rodney, the man who hadn\\u2019t intervened on his son\\u2019s behalf, was still living. Time was running out. Stable and happy for the first time in decades, Howard began to search for answers.\\n\\nThrough his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families, talked with one of Freeman\\u2019s sons about his father\\u2019s controversial life\\u2019s work, and confronted Rodney about his complicity. And, in the archive where the doctor\\u2019s files are stored, he finally came face to face with the truth.\\n\\nRevealing what happened to a child no one\\u2014not his father, not the medical community, not the state\\u2014was willing to protect, My Lobotomy exposes a shameful chapter in the history of the treatment of mental illness. Yet, ultimately, this is a powerful and moving chronicle of the life of one man.")'