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Clipboard: Love and autism in Greenfield, Mass.

By Chelsea Conaboy

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 27, 2011

Amy Harmon of the New York Times has written the lovely story of a young couple in Greenfield who are doing what young couples do. They’re learning how to share their lives, finding their way through arguments over cooking dinner and whether to get a cat, negotiating a tiny apartment with moments of tension and of sweetness. This couple, 19-year-old Jack Robison and 18-year-old Kirsten Lindsmith, both have Asperger syndrome, a kind of autism.

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