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“You know…the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible pricey you have to pay for survival.”
“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”
“Exactly so, but it is still a group, with other people.”
No! No!”
“At a terrible price, you belong.”

“The school recommended that we take her to a child psychiatrist, and we did, but she only seemed to get more disturbed and angry, and after the third session she said, ‘Am I not what you wanted? Do you have to correct my brain too?’ She had a way of speaking even a ten, a kind of bitterness that was too old for her.”