The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

by Ellen Baker

Some things you never get over. Sometimes life makes you strike poor bargains, and sometimes you just plain don’t know what to do. And you just have to go on and do the best you can!

Fifty years old! Near death!

Lol

“Yes, well, they didn’t like for girls to have sex outside of marriage, and any girl who ‘couldn’t control her impulses’ was defined as feebleminded. Plus, in my case, the court had it on record that I’d slept with a Black man. Which was against the law. Once a girl crossed that line, she was considered irredeemable.”