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44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love

By Sylvia Shults
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By Sylvia Shults
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44 YEARS IN DARKNESS

A TRUE STORY OF MADNESS, TRAGEDY AND SHATTERED LOVE

BY SYLVIA SHULTS

Lost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at the Adams County Poor Farm when her family could no longer care for her, she spent the next 40 years confined in a wooden box. Abandoned, ignored, and traumatized, she had clawed out her own eyes, pulled her own teeth, and her legs were atrophied to the point that she could not stand on her own, ...

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