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Posted: November 24, 2009 at 4:51 a.m.
Rom Houben, 46, a Belgian man who doctors thought was in a vegetative state after a car crash in 1983, was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother and medical team said, adding that a professor caught the misdiagnosis and taught Houben how to communicate through a special keyboard.
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