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It was a Monday morning when I first met Lu*, a 10-year-old boy admitted to our epilepsy center over the weekend, scheduled for a tumor resection in 2 days. Being Lu's neurosurgeon, I believed it was most likely a benign tumor lying in his left temporal lobe. It could have been there for years, unnoticed, until it caused multiple events of seizures. It was called a low-grade epilepsy-associated tumor, usually resistant to pharmacologic treatment, but a good responder to surgical intervention. It was a fairly common reason for admission to our department, and the tumor was located in a relatively safer region to resect. He should be out of the hospital, seizure-free, within a week.