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Jul 24, 2019
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Ten-year-old best friends, Nate Delaney and Adam Murphy spent time by the river outside the grounds of the Lunatic Asylum as often as they could, but still that was only weekends and school holidays. Their friend Joe always spoke to them, treated them kindly, sketched them and intrigued them. Nate and Adam knew he wasn’t insane but didn’t know why he was in there. Then one day when they came back, Joe was no longer there.
Over twenty years later, ex-cop Nate, now a PI, was almost-divorced wi ...more
Ten-year-old best friends, Nate Delaney and Adam Murphy spent time by the river outside the grounds of the Lunatic Asylum as often as they could, but still that was only weekends and school holidays. Their friend Joe always spoke to them, treated them kindly, sketched them and intrigued them. Nate and Adam knew he wasn’t insane but didn’t know why he was in there. Then one day when they came back, Joe was no longer there.
Over twenty years later, ex-cop Nate, now a PI, was almost-divorced wi ...more
Truly horrifying, & probably not so far from the truth, if not in the 1980s then not that much earlier in the history of mental health institutions, or good old lunatic asylums. Certainly, there would have been a lot of disempowered, disenfranchised, bewildered people locked away & forgotten about.
Adam Murphy & Nathan Delaney befriended Joseph O'Connell when they were children. They talked to Joe through the fence of the River Park Lunatic Asylum, & became friends of sorts. Twenty years later, a ...more
Adam Murphy & Nathan Delaney befriended Joseph O'Connell when they were children. They talked to Joe through the fence of the River Park Lunatic Asylum, & became friends of sorts. Twenty years later, a ...more
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