incident, which inspired the movie’s most bizarre and infamous scene, actually reflected a time when Joan forbade hangers rather than a time when she nearly killed the child for using those hangers. (Christina never wrote that she was beaten with wire hangers, but rather that she was beaten because she had wire hangers in her closet.) But the truth of the matter is that the laundry company and the dry cleaners to which Joan entrusted the family’s clothes were under strict instructions to return all clothing on the richly covered hangers Joan provided. Could the company have failed once and
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