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ROSALYN CALVIT

MY MOTHER LIVED A LIVING NIGHTMARE IN THIS GODFORSAKEN PLACE FROM AGE 9 TO 21 SE WAS PUT HERE FOR RUNNING AWAY WHEN HER PARENTS CAME TO GET HER THEY REFUSED TO LET HER GO HOME WITH HER MOM AND DAD HER PARENTS WERE HEARTBROKEN SO WERE HER 2 BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HURT BEYOND WORDS.SHE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS HELL HOLE YEARS LATER BEFORE HER DEMISE IN NOVEMBER THE DAY AFTER THANKSIVING THE DAY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE OUT. SHE WITNESSED PEOPLE HAVING SEIZURES AT AGE NINE SCARED SHITLESS NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO THAT'S WHY WHEN I HAD A GRAND MAL SEIZURE SHE KNEW WHAT TO DO WHEN I HAD ONE. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE GERIATRIC PATIENTS AFTER THEY URINATED AND DEFECATED ALL OVER THE MOLDY DELAPATED FLOORS AT AGE NINE AND FORCED TO PICK TOMATOES IN THE HOT SUN ALL DAY WOULD YOU LIKE DOING THAT?. ASK YOURSELVES THAT QUESTION WOULD YOU?. ANSWER ME ONE QUESTION IS THERE A MASS GRAVE THERE? FROM WHAT I HEARD ON THE NEWS THEY FOUND A VERY LARGE MASS GRAVE WITH ADOLESCENT GIRLS BONES IN IT. I ALMOST AS WELL AS MY OWN MOTHER ALMOST ENDED UP IN THAT GRAVE BECAUSE SHE DISOBEYED THE STAFF THERE SHE WAS PUT IN SECLUSION FOR NOTHING BROKE WINDOWS WITH THE BEDPAN AND SANG ALL NIGHT LONG. SHE TOLD ME THAT THE WOMEN WOULD TRY TO CLIMB IN BED WITH HER AT AGE 9. I WOULD BE SCARED TOO. THEY TAUGHT THEM NOTHING THERE NO READING, WRITING, ARETHMATITIC NOT ONE DAMN THING EDUCATION WISE . DID THEY HOLD SATANIC RITUALS THERE TOO? WAS MY MOTHER A SACRFICE BECAUSE SHE WAS A VIRGIN? IS THAT HOW SHE GOT PREGNANT WITH ME AND MY SISTER AND OUR HALF BROTHER HAD A DIFFERENT FATHER? 5 YEAR OLD PSYCHIC

Location: Belchertown State School  Gallery: The Theater