i do not understand parents sometimes

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i am at kean, where a little girl inside is determined to hang herself dead on the curtain lines. she has now wrapped the line around her neck three times while standing on a chair and the two adults sitting ther have done nothing.

now she is on the chair on one leg, throat wrapped in a cord attached to the top of the blinds, sliding happily down the window

it is like an Edward Gorey book!