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Charlie Dying: A Short Story
At the end of this story Charlie advantages of having his surgery is that he became smart for a while. He also thought one of his advantages was that a dumb person was helping out science for the better. One of his disadvantages is knowing when the regression was happening he was losing his intelligence. Charlie social life change a lot with the surgery because he couldn't have a normal conversation without showing how smart he was. The biggest disadvantage of them all is the risk of Charlie dying the same way Algerian
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