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Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Area of Ohio

The Office of Doctor James Corenthal

Fairmount Children’s Home

6774 Union Street NE, Alliance Ohio 44601

(330) 890-3463 ext. 431

                       

 

November 17th, 1971

 

Doctor Roberts and the FCH Evaluation and Discharge

Fairmount Children’s Home Admissions Office

6774 Union Street NE, Alliance Ohio 44601

 

 

Dear Doctor Roberts and FCH Evaluations and Discharge Dept.,

 

RE:     The continued observation of patient [blacked out] EVAN

 

 

As our team has observed, over the course of the last year, the condition of one of our youngest patients, Evan, Has proven to be quite interesting, indeed. I pray that you recall the early stages of our unique treatment process involving the boy. The boy refused to respond to his given name and only reacted to the nickname his birth mother gave him: Habit. Though I’ve tried on many occasions, the actual source of his name is a story impossible to extract. The boy merely smiles* and continues his activities whenever these queries arrise.

 

I commend your creativity regarding the suggestion for the boy to keep a picture diary, when it became know that a written journal was impossible (due to standing orders  of keeping any and every pointed writing implement away from his possession). Evan graciously accepted the Polaroid camera and our staff and the patient’s family were more than ecstatic to find a happy medium in the treatment spectrum. (How can anyone forget the first two weeks of his stay, when Nurse [blacked out] brought his lunch into his room and proceeded to be [blacked out] [blacked out] a good three dozen times until a security officer happened to walk past, noticing the young boy kneeling over the body of the new nurse, laughing and in a dazed state, covered in the gored bits of [blacked out]. In all my years of prac-tice, I have never seen a utensil buried so deep into a human body.)

 

As troubling as that was, the staff observed a stark improvement over the next four months, culminating in the suggestion of his release, with** medical probation. This completion of treatment was suggested eight months ago and I urge you to reconsider tour agreement.*** Aforementioned, Evan has truly shown improvement****

, but my dead colleague, he murdered an innocent caregiver. Obviously we shouldn’t press criminal matters into his life (and simply continue psychiatric remediation) but releasing this child into and unforgiving and free environment would only lead to a terrible, terrible relapse of his homicidal tendencies. Surely you remember the warren of rabbits found in the Community-yard that Evan had apparently used to recreate the scene of Christ’s crucifixion. I cannot forget.

 

 

 

 

Notes: *The s has a slight stain, as if once wet (a tear, perhaps?)

**Same with the wi in with

***and the g in agreement

****The first e in improvement has a sharp line, much like a , extending from its base. Also, there is a bizarre, half-space between this line and the next.

 

 

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Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Area of Ohio

The Office of Doctor James Corenthal

Fairmount Children’s Home

6774 Union Street NE, Alliance Ohio 44601

(330) 890-3463 ext. 431

                       

On a personal note, Dr. Roberts, I have become slightly conscious of my own mental and medical necessities. Sleep is becoming quite the delicacy in my life and when I can find that unadulter-ated blink, all I hear is the same, damned, repeating verse: Rabbit or Habit. Again, I pray you reconsider your confirmation of realse.

 

 

 

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