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Man trapped in coma was awake for 12 years but couldn't move or speak

A man has revealed the living nightmare of waking up from a coma – only to find he was unable to tell anyone.

Martin Pistorius was trapped inside his lifeless body from the age of 12 after being struck down with meningitis and said all he could do was "simply exist"

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