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The things people
do to their kids. Jesus
:17:06
She's not like that
when she's on her own
:17:09
Strangers scare her
:17:10
How do you know?
:17:12
I've been watching her
:17:19
She's been, uh, completely isolated.
Almost certainly mentally retarded
:17:23
A blood test will pick up childhood
disease, any kind of metabolic disorder
:17:27
Oh, you carry a blood kit?
:17:32
You think she's gonna sit there
and let me stick a needle in her?
:17:37
I'll hold her
:17:40
It's okay, darling. It's okay
:17:46
Do it
:18:04
Do it
:18:05
Shh... shh. It's okay
:18:13
If you're right...a big if...
:18:16
if she's never left this cabin
or this part of the forest
:18:19
never known anybody but her mother...
:18:21
never encountered any of
the images of the modern world,
:18:24
never seen a car,
a television a gun, a Hershey bar...
:18:27
never heard rock'n'roll music or
But now you said she can talk
:18:31
Yeah, but it's some kinda
language of her own
:18:34
Well, we haven't had a true wild child
in this country for sixty years
:18:38
She's not a wild child
:18:40
It's just a shorthand term, Dr. Lovell
:18:42
She's not a child
:18:43
No. That's what makes
this case so unique
:18:46
This is not your field, I know
:18:48
Bur let me tell you
what we're dealing with here
:18:50
Some pretty fundamental issues
:18:52
How was the personality formed?
We don't know
:18:55
How much is innate,
how much is learned? We don't know
:18:58
Where do gender roles come from?
We don't know