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A time and place
Born with defects, man writes book,
finds story’s epilogue in Waukesha
GM Today, May 16, 2006 by Kollin Kosmicki
Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts on Tommy Crosthwaite, a man born premature with a severe speech defect. He wrote a memoir on his life and the challenges of living with a disability. Crosthwaite’s latest chapter, after the book’s completion, takes place in Waukesha.
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WAUKESHA Singing is a struggle, but his words find harmony. He plays piano despite naturally shoddy finger movement, and has most his life.
Music has been that constant for Waukesha’s Tommy Crosthwaite, born three months premature with a severe speech defect and other drawbacks, a Southern soul who, at 69, had seen, heard or felt most things he wanted in life.
Except marriage. He never came close. He grew up up in rural Tennessee and afterward, alone most his life, lived in Chicago for 32 years, in Michigan for a couple more and then East Troy before moving here five months ago.
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