The Little Girl in the Attic

From: cathy holden (relestat@flash.net)
Story type: Angel
Location: Milledgeville Georgia
Source: Form Submission

When I was about 14 there was an altercation in my family or what was left of it and this resulted in my being admitted to a mental institution in Milledgeville, Georgia.

In the days after I was admitted was the blackest days of my life up to that time. My father had betrayed me and it felt as if my life was over.

I slept in a dorm with about 10 other ladies of varying ages there was no separation of kids my age and older people.

I had been completely miserable for days and really wished to die.

One night a lady came and set down on my bed and talked to me. I never occurred to me that I could see this lady in total pitch blackness and even more that the nurses had not come into my room to quiet me down as there was no talking allowed after lights out.

For several nights after that this lady came every night and I seemed to get better, less worried. And as that happened the lady came less and less often.

Until finally she didn't come any more and I missed her.

Upon my release I went to visit my Maternal Grandfather. When I walked into the house there was a picture hanging on the wall in the living room. It was the lady from the hospital!!

I asked my Grandfather how he got the picture and was told that it was a picture of my Grandmother who died before I was born.

Did I just remember this picture from my troubled childhood and fabricated the visits to relieve myself of stress??

Think what you will but I believe that my grandmother was and still is my guardian angel.