She expected to find a typed transcript of what she had said. Instead, she was sent a form consisting of 220 questions with boxes to be ticked, covering areas such as social class, religion, education, relationships, and mental health. In filling out this form after hearing Noelle’s testimony, the committee had got many important facts wrong – her religion, the date of her birth mother’s death, the date of her own discharge from Bessborough, even the fact that Noelle was adopted: they described her as having been reared by her birth parents.
…AND A CLASSIC FROM THE ARCHIVES…
This Elizabeth Gilbert story is from 1998, about Eustace Gilbert – who ‘moved to the woods for good when he was 17′.