Fortnight:The space of fourteen nights and days, two weeks. Shawn's Dad in his poem telling how much pain he thought Shawn was in the frist two weeks Shawn was born.
Intuition: Instinctive knowing; an impression that something might be the case. Shawn has a gut feeling that his dad is planning to kill him but dad never said that he would.
Pulitzer: Annual award for distinguished work in U.S. journalism, letters, music, etc. Shawn's dad won this award for the poem he wrote about Shawn when he was a baby.
Anonymous: Having no name, identity, or known source. Shawn wanted to be unknown like the waiter where his father read his poem and everybody was treating Shawn like a baby.
Frontal Lobe: Part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying behind the forehead. Doctor telling Shawn's Mom the cause of Shawn's laughter when going into a sizure.
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