The pictures from this time were of a very tall, still gawky boy.

But the gawky boy answered them all.

She says, "Abe was then a long, thin, leggy, gawky boy, dried up and shrivelled."

Within seconds a pair of customers had come into the shop, a big gawky boy and a pale emaciated European girl.

Beneath the light, a gawky boy of perhaps eleven huddled in a fetal position, jaws clenched, as if fighting back tremendous pain.

He'd been a handsome, gawky boy of maybe nineteen when I'd first spotted him working as a bellboy at the Silent Shore Hotel in Dallas.