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The Purgatorium

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Reads 126,954
Votes 5,468
Parts 22
Time 4h 41m

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Dr. Hortense Gray practices experimental psychology on an uninhabited island off the coast of California where people go wanting to die and leave fighting to live. Seventeen-year-old Daphne Janus is her newest patient.
  
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