An unknown speaker delivers a comedic stand-up set recounting her experience in a psychiatric hold as a 17-year-old — including saving two lives on the unit and being released the day before Thanksgiving with only half her hair corn-rowed by the friends she made inside.
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[00:00:00] I’m halfway through because your roommate was choking on her own vomit no yeah yeah okay
[00:00:13] no it’s cool it’s cool it’s fine I’m a hero actually I saved two lives like do you know
[00:00:21] how hard it is to have to untie a noose I saved two lives this cute little place you know
[00:00:29] how cute can it be I don’t know but I made friends with a lot of black girls because we’re
[00:00:38] outside of Philly and I we were like all besties in there even though I was there because I was sad
[00:00:45] and they were there because they were angry it’s it’s kind of how it happens but I I was 17 so I
[00:00:52] was kind of dumb but it was fun I it was right before Thanksgiving and I get half my hair corn
[00:00:58] run
[00:00:59] um yeah they they they’re like your hair is so pretty please let us do it I was like I can’t say
[00:01:06] no we’re all stuck here together so I do but then they’re like Abby guess what you’re getting
[00:01:12] released today right right now my mother’s gonna love this one it’s literally the day before
[00:01:21] Thanksgiving like I’m going home with not not my full head just half my head that’s true