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TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE by BERTON BRALEY

First Line: THE TOWN THOUGHT ME A MODEL WOMAN
Last Line: WHAT A HORRID THING I WAS WHEN I GOT STARTED.
Subject(s): INSANITY; MASTERS, EDGAR LEE (1869-1950); MURDER; ORPHANS; MADNESS; MENTAL ILLNESS; FOUNDLINGS;

The town thought me a model woman
With my girlish hair tumbling down my brow.
I kept my secret well
And even to-day
Nobody realizes the truth
That at various times in fits of temper
I burned the orphan asylum,
Murdered my father because I didn't like
The smell of his pipe,
And forged his will in my favor;
People didn't understand
What a horrid thing I was when I got started.



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