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The story behind The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

In 1995, Bobby, a Frenchman who had been the editor-in-chief of one of the world's top fashion magazines, suddenly suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, leaving only his left eye to blink. It took him two years, blinking to choose the letters he needed, forming the letters into words, and then connecting them into sentences, and so on. Each word took an average of two minutes, and the entire book took about two million winks to complete, culminating in the book "Diving Bells and Butterflies," which shocked the world when it was published.

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