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Deborah ran her finger across Elsie's face in the Crownsville photo. "She looks like she wonderin where I'm at," she said. "She look like she needs her sister." (273)
Can you imagine—knowing your sister was abused and probably tortured in an institution and not even knowing that sister existed? Deborah's devastated when she learns that her sister most likely died from the horrific abuse (and possibly from scientific experimentation) at Crownsville. She feels responsible, even though she didn't even know about her. The loss of her mother and sister, both situations entirely out of her control, tear Deborah apart.