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iew of San Francisco" (6). Unlike some of her fellow patients, Kaysen never tried to escape from her prison; instead, she carefully, methodically recorded every detail that confirmed her confinement, with the kind of attention to detail that later turned her into a successful and powerful writer.

She remembers a trip to the supermarket, just before coming to McLean. She stood in the aisle, staring at the packages of steaks: "The meat was bruised, bleeding

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