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The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum. The state almshouse. Rats -- why my brother Jimmie and I used to play with the rats because we didn鈥檛 have toys. Maybe you鈥檇 like to know what Helen will find there鈥� not on visiting days? On ward was full of the -- old women, crippled, blind, most of them dying, but even if what they had was catching there was no where else to move them, so that鈥檚 where they put us. There were younger ones across the hall, prostitutes mostly, with T.B., and epileptic fits, and some of the kind who -- kept after other girls, especially young ones, and some insane. Some just had the DT鈥檚. The youngest were in another ward to have babies they didn鈥檛 want, started at 13,14. They鈥檇 leave afterwards but the babies stayed and we played with them too, though most had -- sores all over from diseases you鈥檙e not supposed to talk about. The first year we had eighty, seventy died. The room Jimmie and I played in was the dead house where, they kept the bodies until they could dig the graves. No, it made me strong. But I don鈥檛 think you need send Helen there. She鈥檚 strong enough.

Gibson, William. The Miracle Worker. Scribner, New York, NY. 2008. 68-69.