The Purgatorium
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MatureComplete Fri, May 27, 20164h 41m
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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