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Key on a Knee: How a Stroke Delivered Someone Else's Secret

Key on a Knee: How a Stroke Delivered Someone Else's Secret

A hospital bed emptied at 4:40 a.m., a stroke patient found hypothermic on a trail, and an old metal car key balanced on his knee tied to a handwritten tag naming a man who had moved nine days earlier with no public record. How did a man with left-hemisphere stroke damage and fine-motor ability reduced to that of a young child come to be holding a key that pointed to a stranger's unrecorded address?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a May morning discovery through the medical assessments and neighborhood moves that tie two…

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