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Ed Davis I just finished a novella called In All Things, A Return to the Drooling Ward. In 1914 Jack London immortalized what was then called The Sonoma State Home for the Feeble Minded in his short story, Told in the Drooling Ward. In 1970 the narrator of this story enters that same institution as a seventeen year old trainee. In London’s day the inmates were called droolers, feebs, and eplics. As this story begins the terms that replaced those; moron, imbecile and idiot have only recently been phased out, and the inmates are now called residents. Yet by any name the population of nearly thirty five hundred the narrator finds there are much as they were in London’s time, and the care they receive is not much changed.

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