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The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves PB_Gift_Guide she’s ready to inspire othersBetween 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Livre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the