- He was young, under ten years old, and he was cutting his slice of watermelon into pieces as he whispered, "Now I'm cutting off your arms. And now I'm cutting off your legs."
- He was a young teenage boy and he was too skinny. He was sitting in a wheelchair behind the nurses' station and adamantly refusing to drink his Ensure.
- She was Mennonite and she felt like she didn't belong. Her roommate reported that she vomited as soon as she was allowed into her room after a meal. One day she and another girl traded clothing and dressed as each other. The nurses interrupted and forbade that.
- She was confined because she'd use anything to scratch herself, even pen caps. At first they let her choose her own food, but then they made confinement less appealing by providing her with whatever the cafeteria decided to serve.
- She was older, black, and large. Unlike most of the others in her program, she ate too much, not too little. She showed a younger girl how to put on makeup while sitting at the door of her room, but the colors were too dark for the other girl's skin.
- She came in underage with a shirt advertising cigarettes and no others. She was ordered to wear the shirt inside-out until they could get her new clothes.
- He was sixteen years old and the girl he pursued was eleven.
- He was tall with a beard. He talked on the pay-phone with Russia until they made him stop. He carried around a map of Baghdad and muttered to himself about his plan for attack.
- She didn't come in dual, but they caught her whispering about drugs with another person and got suspicious that maybe she belonged in the other program.
- She had a strategy for whenever they wanted her to go home - she went into long descriptions of the many means of death she had ready at home - but eventually they made her leave.
- She interrupted someone's visiting time with her profuse apologies for faxing a revealing photo to the Kennedy family, whom she believed to be the visitors, and rambled on about that until the nurses made her leave.
- The new medications made her eyes sensitive to light, so she spent a lot of time easing her headaches with the darkness of her room.
- She became obsessed with throwing hot coffee on another woman, but after she did so, they later became friends.
- She looked like a little angel when she blamed an older child for denting the air hockey table, damage that she had done.
- She could describe her past with cool detachment and couldn't make herself angry enough to shout or throw things, even though that was the goal.
aug 22 2011 ∞
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