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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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into a snail effect. Flexed knee supported her chest; scrawny arms turned around stalk-like legs. A then whisp of chinese-silk nightgown encased the immobile statue and protected it but flimsily against the coldly ventilated wintery room. She had a gastritis - In kind resulting from inadequate eating habits which permitted the stomach to shrink and lose its flexibility, and therefore had to be expanded at great discomfort. In addition to a gastritis, this woman had an extraordinary constipation curse. One evening Dr. Sam - one of the fellows - with a wicked gleam in his eye announced to her, "If I were able to string your entrails around the floor, and kick them around a bit, you would be all right. You would be constipation free."
We shrieked with glee and delight.
After six weeks at St. Mary's I was dismissed on new Year's eve to spend a few weeks at my sister's in northern Minnesota with the understanding that I was to report back at the Clinic for another check before I could be permitted to get my final dismissal.

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into a snail effect. Flexed knee supported her chest; scrawny arms turned around stalk-like legs. A then whisp of chinese-silk nightgown encased the immobile statue and protected it but flimsily against the coldly ventilated wintery room. She had a gastritis - In kind resulting from inadequate eating habits which permitted the stomach to shrink and lose its flexibility, and therefore had to be expanded at great discomfort. In addition to a gastritis, this woman had an extraordinary constipation curse. One evening Dr. Sam - one of the fellows - with a wicked gleam in his eye announced to her, "If I were able to string your entrails around the floor, and kick them around a bit, you would be all right. You would be constipation free." We shrieked with glee and delight. After six weeks at St. Mary's I was dismissed on new Year's eve to spend a few weeks at my sister's in northern Minnesota with the understanding that I was to report back at the Clinic for another check before I could be permitted to get my final dismissal.