troubled
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Last published Tue, Jul 29, 2014
Nine years in a place like St. Elizabeth's Institute For Troubled Children can do terrible things to your mind. This is a story about a "troubled" child, how she sees the world she lives in, and the world she's locked away from, the one beyond the walls of the Institute.
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