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The Girl in the Basement

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“My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people? That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice. “Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.”

“This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen’s eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the ‘criminally insane’ label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle’s legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both.”