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Christy Brown once wrote: 'From the gutter of my defeated dreams you pulled me to heights almost your own.' - My Left Foot: The Autobiography. It was August 1968 and the poem was a dedication to his mother, Bridget, whose recent death had plunged Christy 'into the worst depression he would ever suffer'. He had just lost an extraordinary woman. This might be the story of Christy's life, but it is also a tribute to Bridget, a woman whose determination, love and dogged refusal to send her son to ...