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The Awakening of HK Derryberry is the motivating story of how one man was inclined to step out of his upper-middle-class world into the life of a, disabled young man with a dismal future. Little have Jim Bradford know the transformational probable of that a friendly relationship - for HK and himself. HK Derryberry came into the planet with the odds stacked intensely against him. He was taken from his unmarried mother's womb 90 days prematurely when she was wiped out in a car wreck. After 96 days and nights of seesawing between life and loss of life, HK's grandmother got him home. One Saturday day Jim Bradford, a successful businessman in his mid-fifties, happens into Mrs. Winner's Chicken breast and Biscuits and sees a nine-year-old's brain pressed down against a black plastic boom box with a crooked antenna and three whitening strips of gold duct tape extended across the battery cover. He can't help but notice the long, white clear plastic braces on each one of the child's hip and legs. Mr. Bradford discovers that HK's grandmother is required to bring him to the fast-food restaurant where she works, departing him to be seated alone all day at a little desk, with only his growth box for company. On following Saturdays Jim seems drawn back to the restaurant to meet with HK and begins spending every weekend with him. Eventually it becomes evident that buried beneath HK's severe disabilities is one breathtaking ability. He is identified as having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory space (HSAM), that involves superlative powers of recollection that allow him to remember everything that has happened to him since the years of three. Significantly less than 100 folks have been identified as having HSAM, but none of them have physical disabilities of HK Derryberry.
