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The Reformatory, page 56
And thanks to my literary agent, Donald Maass, who encouraged me to keep writing.
For further nonfiction reading on the Dozier School (not a complete list), read:
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle
The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South by Robin Gaby Fisher
The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice by David Kushner
I Survived Dozier: The Deadliest Reform School in America by Richard Huntly
The White House Boys: An American Tragedy by Roger Dean Kiser
The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past by Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD
The Boys of Dozier by Daryl McKenzie
Lies Uncovered: The Long Journey Home—The Truth About the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys by Duane C. Fernandez, Sr.
It Still Hurts: My Father’s Painful Account of Survival at the Florida Industrial School for Boys by Marshelle Smith Berry and Salih Izzaldin, edited by Joseph Carroll
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