'Every day for more than six years, Minnie Smith greeted her daughter with the same question, and every day it went unanswered. Plunged into a mysterious coma-like vegetative state by a heart attack and stroke, Christa Lilly had slipped into silence in November 2000 and had barely communicated since.
'But on Sunday, Mrs Smith, 73, breezed into her daughter's room to kiss her good morning. "Hey babe, how you doing today?" she asked as usual, stroking the 49-year-old woman's hair.' (Guardian article).
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