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Llyd
Oct 9, 2012

My Lovely Horse posted:

Probably just snappier for a TV show. Everyone knows cancer is bad news. If the audience has to recall what sickle cell anaemia is, they're gonna miss the next two lines. It works in a book because you can take a quick break.

That and the fact that sickle cell anemia is a disease that affects disproportionately black people, which is another tidbit about Shadow's ancestry in the book, but is moot in a tv show.

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