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Imagine waking up to the shrill sound of a phone call in the early morning hours to hear that your youngest child is being rushed to the hospital. Scott and Janet Simpson received that phone call that changed their lives forever. My name is Andrew Simpson, and I was the reason for that phone call. At the age of eighteen, I suffered from a traumatic brain injury that left me in a coma for eighteen days. This book is an account not only from myself but from the people that supported me throughout this life-changing ordeal. It speaks to the faith that my family found in God. The morning of the accident is recalled through multiple family members and what they experienced, as well as their unshakeable faith that I would live. They also recount all the hardships that I went through once I was in recovery and how the brain injury has impacted my life more than ten years later. I recount my experiences of not only my first memory coming out of the coma but also the ups and downs of recovery and my life after. I had to learn how to cope with the lifelong side effects that my actions caused, but in those hardships, I found a lifelong faith in God.
Andrew, an alcoholic, roams the streets, begging and gathering items to sell to support his addiction. By happenstance he runs into Marty, his former brother-in-law, who decides to rehabilitate him, but his endeavor is thwarted by his former mother-in-law, Claire. Claire forbids Marty from coming around her because, while driving under the influence, he caused the death of his wife, Elizabeth, who was Claire's sister. Claire directs a rehabilitation center, so she appoints her adopted brother, Michael, as editor-in-chief of the city newspaper she owns. This turns out to be a mistake. Claire is unaware that Andrew, her former husband, is in the city, not having heard from him since leaving her over thirty years earlier, without him knowing she was pregnant. Claire is perplexed with Marty admitting Andrew into her rehabilitation center for treatment, fearing Andrew will find out that Andrea, who works there as a doctor, is his daughter. Aided by Michael and Lizzy, an employee of the newspaper, a battle ensues to unite Andrew and Andrea. With Claire in the scene and due to the power she commands, the question is, Will Andrew discover he has a daughter and be reunited with her?
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.