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Article: The fumigation chamber. (toxic chemical impregnated a summer cottage)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 1988
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No one could diagnose the cause of Betty Page's mysterious symptoms, but they all seemed somehow connected with the cottage at the lake.
A woman I'll call Betty Page was awakened in the middle of the night, around three o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, May 30, 1984, by a spasm of nausea. She sat up with a lurch and a groan. Her husband, Lewis, lifted his head and asked what was the matter. She told him. She said she didn't understand it-she just felt sick and awful. She crouched there, wondering. Then she had an impulse. She had a sudden craving for milk-for a cup of warm milk. She went down to the kitchen and put some milk in a pan on the stove to ...