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The Patient

Commentator Elissa Ely (EEL-eye) writes about a psychiatric patient who always carried his resume and taked of reading great literature-- Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and the writings of Spinoza. Ely committed him to a hospital despite his insistence that he is quote "in all his fine senses." Years later, she has some perspective on the experience.

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