Dead Toys

Here is another in the popular series "OneEar's High School Memories."

Late at night, we would drive into a seemingly normal neighborhood where one of the houses, tucked among many, always had its interior lights illuminated. The front living room of this particular place had a large front window with no curtains through which we passers-by could see very clearly. The large, white room was empty. Empty except for the ceiling. Hanging from the ceiling, by hang-man's nooses, were 50 or 60 dolls and stuffed animals.

The parents of the poor suicide victim had created this memorial to remind of (or punish for) the fact that their young daughter had hung herself. Or so the story went.