One may afternoon in 1958, Mason walked into Wilbur’s office carrying a typed letter that ran to four pages. It began with Mason admitting that she was “none of the things I have pretended to be.

“I am not going to tell you there isn’t anything wrong,” the letter continued. “But it is not what I have led you to believe… . I do not have any multiple personalities… . I do not even have a ‘double.’ … I am all of them. I have been essentially lying.

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