Started reading Rachel Anderson’s book,shocked by the description how a young
mentally retarded girl’s hopes are dashed
through selfishness
Love could not protect her against the facts
of life, the girl’s parents unable to keep her
safe against nasty relations and public
opinion, amazed
At the pain such stories cause us, yet when
I am confronted with the mentally retarded
myself, I run away, I react in exactly the
same way
What’s wrong with us?
The Bus People by Rachel Anderson
Oxford University Press1989
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