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Alyssa Gallo

I Followed An Angel of Death and Read Her Diary

Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Children and Childhood, Jobs and Occupations, Journals and Diaries, Science and Experimentation / / 10 minutes of reading

A couple of months ago, I found a diary written by a young girl, Florence Blackwell, who was a patient at the Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital on Long Island. Without telling the entirety of the story over again, there was one person who was instrumental in Florence’s survival of inhumane treatment at the hospital; a nurse named Mary.

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I Found a Diary Tucked in a Brick at an Abandoned Psych Hospital

Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Children and Childhood, Jobs and Occupations, Journals and Diaries, Science and Experimentation / / 26 minutes of reading

I grew up on Long Island, right outside of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center, home of the legend of Cropsey. I was always a good kid, never broke any rules, never really pushed the limits of what was and wasn’t “allowed”. But recently, I moved home after graduating from college,

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