Open Your Eyes, Darling
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  • Reads 349
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  • Parts 2
  • Time 9m
Ongoing, First published Jan 03, 2015
Jennifer Leanne Cullen had begun to develop a fear of food at the mere age of seven, and despite her peculiar eating habits, her faultless little Christian family never bothered to notice. As she was shrinking in size, one day when having a friend over for her "dinner," her ex-roommate Josie Ballard confronted Jenifer of having Anorexia Nervosa in front of her family of four. Astonished and distraught, Cullen's
parents admitted their teenage daughter into a mental institution, in a fear that their baby girl's mind had been tainted by the devil. The petite brunette soon found herself lost in a state of disorder, with a very perturbed and dark mindset, but, as the metaphor goes, "When one door closes, another one opens." Not too long after being consigned to room 221, Jenni found herself befriending an unlikely candidate, a young schizophrenic girl aged only to the age of ten. Fascinated by the child's exemplary views on life, and idiosyncratic mind, the fourteen year old began to take the juvenile under her wing. Treating the minor as a younger sister, in a matter of time Jennifer began to unlock the true meaning of life, and discovered what it's like to have a genuine friend.
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