Scratch-Off (Last Magdalene Asylum Closes 1996) 9/25
These nuns sell some land
This is in 1993
The land developers find 155 bodies
Like some horror movie
They take the bodies and cremate them
toss them into a mass grave
These women
most of them just young pregnant
or mentally handicapped “socially dysfunctional”
They washed clothes and sewed
Weren’t allowed to talk
It started in 1767
30,000 women
most never allowed to leave again
Not one eye blinking
Not one word raised
for 200 years
It took a land deal
And the invention of cheap washing machines
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