
A tuberculosis diagnosis landed Marilyn VanHoosen in Trudeau Sanitorium in upstate New York, far away from her vaccinated friends, who were enjoying their senior year of high school on milkshake-sweet dates and attending formal dances. Confined to a sterile bed in the infirmary...

In Marilyn VanHoosen's mind, she was a prisoner at Trudeau Sanitorium - her penance for contracting tuberculosis and upheaving her parents' sham of an idyllic life. As she ticked off the days passed in the gloomy infirmary in upstate New York, she wondered what her parents'...