They brought in novelist Jessica Anthony, author of the quirky 2009 novel "The Convalescent, " about a dwarf who sells meat out of a bus.

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's discontinued, and for the first time we had convalescent men taking food by mouth, growing stronger and getting into the holiday spirit.

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With the American economy still convalescent, weak demand remains a bigger threat to recovery than indebtedness.

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The area was the site of hundreds of beach huts and the former Herman de Stern convalescent home which caught fire in 2005 before it was demolished.

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The war both caused and remedied the problem: competitors were housed in a pair of spruced-up RAF camps and an army convalescent home.

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