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Question
How did the boy who played the mechanic lose his eyesight?
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Solution
The mechanic was seven years old. One night, when he's drunk father tortured his mom, she threw a lantern at him. The lantern broke over the child’s head and shoulders. He suffered third-degree burns on the upper part of his body and lost both of his eyes.
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