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Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty-five years ago, this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and the spinal cord, causes stiffening and weakening of the muscles, crippling and paralysis - which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with a huge 23 year gap between the first and last. I was told that, unlike the others, I was so fair and brown-haired that I looked more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.In his childhood, the narrator said "more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri":This was because he was |
| A. | a foreign child. |
| B. | a very healthy boy. |
| C. | tall and smart. |
| D. | fair and brown-haired. |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» E. None of these | |