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“I Can Still Hear His Voice” – Amy Wallace-Havens Remembers Her Brother, David Foster Wallace

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    As a kid growing up in Illinois, David Foster Wallace invented a game called "Captain Phlegm and his trusty sidekick, Goat Bile," which he refused to let his little sister play.  Amy Wallace-Havens remembers her big brother as "benevolently sadistic" and "the best listener I have ever met in my life."

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