And his parents brought him in kind of almost unconscious because they said he fell from some height.

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The final chance of the game fell to Cohen, and he almost restored parity but Gilks produced a stunning save to parry the drive wide.

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He was fitting a small panel at the bottom left-hand side, a pane of bruised blue glass that showed the broken and suffering about to be transformed by light, almost the last piece in the window, when he fell.

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"To our viewers who supported us through thick and thin - sometimes so thin we almost fell through, we say thank you, " he said.

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Immediately afterward, he fell ill with a succession of infections, including scarlet fever and pneumonia, which kept him hospitalized for almost a year.

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