Sylvia Frumkin is the pseudonym given for the

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subject of Susan Sheehan's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography '' Is There No Place on Earth for Me?'' first published serially in ''

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''. A quotation from the book, giving some of her dialog, gives some of the general flavor of her behavior: :"There's no such thing as schizophrenia, there's only mental telepathy. I once had a friend named Camilla Costello. She was Abbott and Costello's daughter. She said to me, 'You know, Sylvia, I have a lot of friends, but you're my best friend.' I'm working here. I'm an intern at Creedmoor. I'm in the

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, but I'm thinking of changing my religion. I have a dog at home. I love instant oatmeal. When you have

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, you don't need a diet.

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wants to marry me. I want to get out the revolving door. With Jesus Christ, anything is possible. I used to hit my mother. It was the hyperactivity from all the cookies I ate. I'm the personification of

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. I used to go outside asking the other kids to be my friend when I was little.

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's the most beautiful state in the Union. I've been there once, by television. My name is

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, and I'm an actress." As a result of the publication of her history, she was given more effective treatment. Nonetheless, she continued to go in and out of mental hospitals and died in 1994, according to a follow-up article by Susan Sheehan in ''The New Yorker'' titled "The Last Days of Sylvia Frumkin." The same article disclosed her legal name as Maxine Mason, sister of U.S.

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activist Trudy Mason.

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