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is this based on the real life situation? there is a boys reform school around Tallahassee that was closed down years ago due to allegations of abuse and recently, anthropologists have begun excavating dead bodies there. is that what this is based on?

Bette In the kindle edition I just read, Bill Bass in Author Notes & History gives his explanation of the source information for the reform school; and yes …moreIn the kindle edition I just read, Bill Bass in Author Notes & History gives his explanation of the source information for the reform school; and yes the stories come from "an actual north Florida reform school, that still exists. It has operated under many names since it opened in 1900, "including the Florida School for Boys, the Florida Industrial School for Boys, and the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. The White House Boys were former inmates (students)."(less)

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I listened to this remarkable although fictional account of the horrendous abuse inflicted upon young boys at a Florida Boys reformatory. I almost could not believe my ears when it relayed so closely to the White House Boys account of what went on at the Dozier Boys Reformatory in Florida. Students from USF were able through excavation to unearth their bones and the secrets buried with them. Is the excavation cont?

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