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Show Child Unconscious 40 Days Finally Answers Father TUCSON, Ariz. On Mother's Day, May 14, Edwin T. Murphy and his family went to visit relatives. On the way home their car collided head-on with another. Edward E. Browne, Mrs. Murphy's Mur-phy's father, was killed. Mrs. Effie Brown died two days later. Edwin Murphy's wife, Marjorie, 34, suffered suf-fered critical head injuries. Carol, the baby, suffered shock, cuts and bruises. Patricia, 12, was picked up unconscious uncon-scious and had knee and leg injuries. in-juries. Every day for 40 days after the accident Edwin Murphy would go to the hospital where Patricia lay unconscious and lean across the hospital cot and call gently, "Patricia, "Pa-tricia, Pat, can you hear me?" Every day he would rise at dawn to pass as many hours as possible with his daughter before he went to work. Then he would rush back to her bedside when the store in which he worked had closed. For endless hours he had called to his child trying try-ing to pierce the silence in which she had lain. Nurses turned away with tears in their eyes. Doctors shook their heads. Then on the 40th day. she finally spoke. "Momma," she whispered. Although she eats when fed from a spoon, brain specialists declare her full recovery is, only possible, not probable. |