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Where All Ladders Start

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Will is slowly losing his mind in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He makes a deal with the devil to get out.
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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. William Butler Yeats * Will sat on the edge of his cot and listened to the soft tap of approaching footsteps. Too even for Chilton, who now walked with a slow, hitching step and a can
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