The nightmare of all those years had been pain enough.
I wanted to see her smiling and know I had been the one to make her happy.
For the first time in my life, I had brought a smile to her lips.
Then after a while, she paused thoughtfully as if remembering something.
I had the feeling her mind was going to wander. "No!" I shouted, startling her back to reality, "Wait, Ma!"
"There's something else. Something I want you to have before I go." "Go? You can't go away now." "I have to go, Ma."
"I have things to do. But I'll write to you, and I'll send you money."
"But when will you come back?" "I don't know—yet. But before I go, I want you to have this."
"A magazine?" "Not exactly. It's a scientific report I wrote."
"Very technical. Look, it's called The Algernon-Gordon Effect."
"Something I discovered, and it's named partly after me."
"I want you to keep a copy of the report so that you can show people that your son turned out to be more than a dummy after all."
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