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Eve Examines 🐈‍⬛'s avatar

Yes. So did my province. The Toronto crack mayors illiterate brother. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Although compared to the former guy, Doug Ford is just a toddler. People put pressure on him and six weeks late he does what he ought to have. But then other actions are needed of course. And he’s just gonna let all the children in school die. 😰

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Yeah, Traverse City State Hospital. In the 1950s you could still take tours to see the "loonies" in their native habitat, if you were lucky you could watch someone getting electroshock. When it finally closed down in the early '80s and they were examining patient records they found one 70-some year old woman whose mother had been a pregnant teenager (commonly admitted to the state hospitals by family at the time) and the child had been born there, grown up and spent her entire life institutionalized. A family friend was the social worker assigned to the case, and he broke down and cried every time he talked about it.

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