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She was a correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Czech capital of Prague, and he tracked her down after a Spanish film director arranged a "reality show" project to help his search That opened up a whole new world for Gallego One day, his mother got a message from a hospital About blind programmers and paralyzed scientists After the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, launched his "restructuring" campaign in the late 1980s, Gallego was finally able to escape the world of orphanages and began a life of his own There he found better food and education and was able to graduate from high school "White on Black" lifts the Russian taboo on discussing disabilities and reveals the cruelty of a system that warehouses the physically and mentally impaired He moved to Prague to live with his mother, and started painstakingly typing his book "If my Mom moved to live in China, without any doubt I would have moved there after her," Gallego said When his mother was assigned to Madrid, he followed her there " There are up to 11 million disabled among Russia's 144 million people, but they are largely invisible "Perestroika brought chaos, and our institutions, which were supposed to be off-limits for the common people, could now receive visitors," Gallego said That system forced Gallego, now 35, to learn at an early age that if he were to survive, he would have to fight Three years ago, Gallego found his mother, Aurora Disabled Author Wins Literary Prize Feb 8, 1:16 PM EST Afflicted with severe cerebral palsy, Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego was separated from his mother as a baby and shunted off into the grim world of Soviet orphanages Yet somehow he survived, found his mother after 30 years, and launched a career as a writer â€â€? an endeavor that recently won him the prestigious Russian Booker Prize for "White on Black," a heart-wrenching account of his travails "There was nothing of that kind in Russia "They called her and said that the child was dead," Gallego said in a telephone interview from his current home in Madrid, Spain About how I cried, when I was told that I had to go back to Russia and give up the wheelchair "The book was outstanding not only as a book, but as a human life," said Igor Shaitanov, secretary of the Booker literary competition, which in December gave Gallego its $15,000 prize for 2003 Petersburg with an initial print run of just 3,000, was pecked out on a computer with a single index finger â€â€? one of just two fingers Gallego can control In fact, the infant had been consigned to an orphanage, one of the prison-like institutions where Soviet society hid its disabled children and adults from public view Gallego remained with his mother for just a year and a half, and much of the time he spent in hospitals "If you don't have arms or legs, you are either a hero or a dead man," he wrote His twin died at birth, while Gallego was diagnosed with an acute form of cerebral palsy The Russian-language book, published by Limbus Press of St " Fortunately, Gallego wrote, the head of the home refused to take the boy in, assuming he would die but then couldn't be buried by an old-age home under Soviet law until he reached age 18 He got married twice and fathered two daughters A grandson of Ignacio Gallego, a prominent leader of the Spanish Communist Party, Gallego was born in the Kremlin hospital in 1968 to a Spanish mother and a Venezuelan father who were both studying in Moscow He even traveled to the United States on a special exchange program, in which Americans with disabilities explained their experiences in getting greater rights such as access to buildings and transportation "That orphanage was paradise, compared to everything I had experienced before "But what could they teach us?" Gallego said with a sigh He was sent to yet another orphanage, this time in southern Russia "Where am I going to keep him these two years? The refrigerators are broken," Gallego overheard the director say Streets, public transport and residences are not geared to their needs I can endlessly tell about the individual wheelchairs, 'talking' elevators, smooth roads, ramps, and buses equipped with elevators "In orphanages at least, there are caretakers who would put a spoonful of food in your mouth if you were paralyzed," Gallego said " Retelling the trip in his book, he wrote: "I can talk a long time about America Then, when he was a teenager, officials tried to transfer him to an old-age home "But in old-age homes, which receive scarce funding, someone like me, who can neither walk nor control his arms, was sure to die of starvation Suffering from malnutrition and a lack of basics such as a wheelchair, which forced him to crawl to get about, Gallego spent his childhood being shuttled from one orphanage to another We had potatoes, we had butter on bread, we had sweet tea," he said June 30: Worcester, Mass July 1: Worcester, Mass J 2: Miami Facts on Madonna's Tour Jun 1, 12:14 PM EST WHO: Madonna, Madge, The Material Girl, the Queen of Pop â€â€? whatever you want to call her, she's one of the biggest pop icons of all time SONGS SHE CAN LEAVE OFF THE LIST: Just about everything from last year's poorly received "American Life," with the exception of the haunting "Pray July 4: Philadelphia July 5: Philadelphia July 6: East Rutherford, N July 29: Sunrise, Fla July 11: Chicago July 12: Chicago July 14: Chicago July 15: Chicago July 18: Toronto July 19: Toronto July 21: Toronto July 24: Atlanta July 25: Atlanta July 28: Sunrise, Fla Her many incarnations throughout the years â€â€? from sex provocateur to children's author â€â€? has kept her relevant and fresh Aug June 9: San Jose, Calif SONGS YOU'LL WANNA HEAR: "Vogue," "Like a Virgin," "Music," "What It Feels Like for a Girl," "Papa Don't Preach," "Take a Bow," "Secret" â€â€? heck, just about anything in her expansive catalog June 8: San Jose, Calif June 28: Worcester, Mass Still, Madonna hasn't turned into a prude â€â€? they'll be plenty of corsets and lingerie-like attire, along with the elaborate staging and showmanship that has made her an acclaimed concert performer " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? 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