Family Possessions Page #6

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So, all these years,

I was writing her letters

thinking they were going

to a nursing home

but really they were going

to an insane asylum.

-Rachel--

-I mean, why even have me

write her letters

in the first place?

Was this like some ploy

or some sh*t for me to stay

in her will so she would

leave me this house?

Of course not.

Then why wouldn't you

tell me?

What did you expect us to do?

You were a kid. Hell,

Andy wasn't even born yet.

Oh yeah, honey, I'm sorry,

your grandmother's

in a mental asylum.

Do you know what that is?

-Sarah.

-No, oh and she's insane too,

but be a lamb

and write her some letters

so she doesn't feel so lonely.

Did you two have something to do

with her being put in there?

Is that why she let you out

of the will?

It wasn't my fault

she was put there.

Andy, go up to your room.

I'm scared to.

You know everyone

in this town thinks I'm crazy

because my grandmother

was apparently a witch?

Today some girl at Crave laughed

at me when she found out

where I live.

Do you think that you're

the only one who gets the looks?

People walk by

this house staring,

like--

We know what it's like too.

-Rachel, stop.

-What?

My mother,

your grandmother was not well.

She did things and said things

that were not normal.

Yes, she thought she was a witch

but there's no such thing

as witches.

I don't believe in it.

She was put in that asylum

because she needed help.

Yeah, okay. Well, Maggie said

she kept corpses in the house.

Yeah, she did.

God, I love how you say

that so casually.

-"Yeah, she did."

-Well,

since we're being honest here,

let's just be honest.

-Okay.

-Yeah, she had bodies

in the house and sometimes

she would... cut off some ears

-and some noses and some--

-SARAH:
Steve, no. Honey, no.

And then she was caught

and that was the last straw.

Okay. The authorities gave me

the option of coming to get her

-or placing her somewhere.

-So you put her away?

I didn't know what

she might do...

okay?

It was out of my hands.

Why do you think I moved out

so far away from her

in the first place?

I wanted out, I didn't want

to go back

and I didn't want her around

my family.

Honey, we thought it was best

if you didn't know the details.

And once she was moved

into the facility,

the nurses reached out to us

and they thought, you know,

maybe if she has some contact

with her only granddaughter,

it would do her some good.

So, yeah, we had you write her

some letters.

Seeing her was out

of the question.

But I didn't see the problem

with you writing her.

Hell, I thought it might help

her, maybe snap her

out of this dark place

that she was in.

Wh-- why didn't you ask me

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