…in the New York Times about a woman named Katie Dallam who was brain-damaged in a boxing match with eerie similarities to “Million Dollar Baby.” Here’s what her sister Stephanie told the Times:

“Maggie, in the story, had a crusty and protective trainer who became a surrogate father and who reluctantly and heartbreakingly helped her die. `That guy in the movie played by Clint Eastwood took the easy way out by killing her rather than having to deal with what her life would have been like,’ Stephanie Dallam said.”

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“The damage to the left side of her brain also affected her right arm and right leg, causing her to tremble and walk oddly. Her vision was affected, leading to weird nighttime hallucinations that persist. When Katie left the clinic, and realized that she would never be able to go back to her job, she decided to kill herself, she said.

Doctors told her to be careful not to get her pulse rate too high, so she waited until she was alone and exercised furiously. But her shattered brain held firm. Later, she decided to save her medication and take it all at once.

`Fortunately, the part of her brain that lets you lie had been damaged, and she just couldn’t lie,’ Stephanie said. `So when somebody asked her, she told exactly what she planned to do. We moved her in with me that day.’”