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I Was Confined in the Mandaluyong Mental Hospital (But Not for a Mental Illness)

I spent a week at the National Center for Mental Health. It was quite nice, actually.  It was September 2013. I had been sick for a week with a fever that refused to go down. I also got my period, and it seemed heavier than usual. Like, really, really heavy. I would wake up to […]

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