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Thalia Cortland Butaker Case Study
Thalia Cortland Butaker-Sutton was deemed insane on a Wednesday.
By that following Monday, Thalia Cortland Butaker-Sutton was no longer Thalia Cortland Butaker-Sutton, but rather Thalia Cortland Doe.
On her last Sunday as a Butaker-Sutton, Thalia overheard her mother speaking to her sister over the phone.
“Well, we obviously can’t keep her -- she’s an embarrassment to the family name!” Thalia cringed. Was she an embarrassment? She thought that she wasn’t. Being a psychopath wasn’t uncommon, was it? In that moment, Thalia decided that she’d prove she wasn’t the embarrassment. That, if anything, it was the Butaker Suttons who were the embarrassment.
Thalia’s first day at Trinity Heights Sanatorium was a Tuesday.
Her first order of business was
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