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I'm Lucy Hawking I'm Stephen Hawking's
daughter just used to cause an absolute
consternation you know people would just
stand there and stare as my father had
his own electric wheelchair which used
to drive at great speed across the whole
of Cambridge accompanied by me and my
older brothers so to sort of run better
moppets running alongside with ice cream
I think it's horrid amazement and shock
how was this disabled man out by himself
and what were these children doing
people just couldn't process the sight
my father always looks for scientific
colleagues who come to dinner
pretty much every night and they would
discuss extraordinary topics you know
and no talk it was out of bounds and as
a child you could ask any question you
wanted and get a reply I think it's my
son's eighth or ninth birthday party and
one of my son's friends when that's my
dad
it almost needs what would happen to me
if I fell in a black hole and everyone
was really interested and everyone
waited for the answer and my father said
you'd be turned into spaghetti because
all the kids were really thrilled and
they totally understood his answer and
all the adults kind of pretended they
didn't all yes yes and I realized that
was a story play what would he be doing
out there in space and so I said to my
father I think we should do this I think
I'll write the story and you put in the
accurate scientific descriptions of the
universe once upon a time there was a
scientist called Stephen he also had a
little daughter called Lucy people who
have lived in war zones and I believe
lived in really extreme circumstances
seem to find something very very
inspirational in his example of
perseverance and persistence and his
kind of ability to rise above his
suffering and still want to communicate
at a higher level with humor to a world
population
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