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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