Jenny (standard:drama, 1253 words)
Author: Fanny11	Added: Oct 14 2009	Views/Reads: 3171/2030	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Jenny is a story about a young woman who has mental problems and her neighbor Ruth listens.

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cry like a child and wonder why people would treat her so bad. 

After numerous fights with Jack, Jenny had him arrested for assault and
he spent some time in jail. Jenny still drank excessively after he 
left. She would go back to the bars and pick up men, she was acting 
like a mixed up teenager. Jenny once spent time in jail for hitting a 
police officer. She told Ruth one evening she was pretty well 
intoxicated and was standing in traffic swinging her coat over her 
head. When the police come to move her out of the traffic she hit one 
of them and was arrested. 

It was so hard for Jenny living in a supposedly normal society while
having so many problems; she was on disability because of her mental 
condition. Ruth would see a social worker come by now and then to see 
how she was doing. 

Jenny once asked Ruth to take her to the bank, and she started to talk
about a daughter that was taken from her by her ex husband who said she 
wasn't able to take proper care of her. Her daughter who was fourteen 
had come to visit her mother once while Ruth lived there. She was very 
pretty like her mom. I could tell she knew her mom had problems, but 
she loved her anyway. 

Just as things were quieting down two new families moved into the
apartment building that had some bratty kits, which ran over everything 
and made a lot of noise. Jenny had found some lilies behind the 
apartment building and came carrying them so tenderly and telling Ruth 
how beautiful they were.  Joy planted them in the front flowerbed, and 
the next morning they were trampled flat. Jenny was so upset when she 
saw her lilies. 

Jennny was smart and talented, but society didn't like the way she
acted. A lot of people with mental disorders are pushed out into the 
mainstream to sink or swim. That can be so hard for them to interact 
with people unlike themselves. She was eventually put out of her 
apartment because of complaints from the neighbors. Ruth heard later 
that Jenny was put in another apartment up the street from where she 
did live. 

Ruth had moved out of state for a year.  After she returned one day she
was reading the local newspaper, and she read that Jenny had been 
severly beaten and was in the hospital. Ruth had started working in a 
retail store and she saw Jenny's friend Jack in the store. Ruth asked 
him how Jenny was doing and she told him what she had read in the 
paper. Jack told Ruth the police thought he did it and had a Dna test 
done to prove he didn't do it. He told Ruth that Jenny didn't remember 
who beat her up. It seems so sad people like Jenny are not well enough 
to keep out of danger. Ruth told Jack she hoped and prayed everything 
works out for Jenny. 


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