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Andrew Vandal was born in Virginia, USA, in 1984 without a brain. He had a rare condition known as hydrancephaly which left his skull full of nothing except fluid. Doctors attending the birth were convinced he would die, but he didn't. Andrew survived to be adopted by a nurse from Conneticut who describes him as a "glowing, outgoing bubbly personality". Mrs.Vandal has two other children with the same condition. One of them, a girl, was still going strong at the age of 12 without a brain. In 1982, ITV broadcast a program which included the case history of a boy named Stephen who managed five 'O' levels without a brain. (if you held a light against his head it would glow and empty pink). Later however, Stephen managed to regrow the missing organ, a medical mystery just as deep as how he got along for so long without it.
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