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Howard Dully

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Howard Dully was born in 1948. At the age of 12, he became one of the youngest victims of the ice pick lobotomy. It would take him 40 years to recover. Abandoned by his family within a year of surgery, Howard was institutionalised in his teens, incarcerated in his twenties, and homeless and alcoholic in his thirties. But in his forties, in love with a woman who was determined to have a life with him, Howard got sober, got married, got a college degree and emerged into a kind of normalcy. He is now a tour bus driver, who lives happily with his wife in California.

Books by Howard Dully

Messing with My Head

A remarkable story of determination and survival with the power of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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My Lobotomy

A remarkable story of determination and survival with the power of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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