Scott Farwell: Lauren is alone in the dark.
She's naked, sitting cross-legged in her own filth, eyes focused on a sliver of light.
It's all she has, that light.
It glows from underneath a locked closet door, and Lauren's discovered if she stares at it long enough, her mind will open a portal to another place.
Doctors say that's how she survived all the years of starvation and solitude and sexual torture. They call it disassociation — the psyche's ability to float away from the pain.
Lauren calls it her "escape hatch."
(thanks, Nigel)
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