131 3 Democracy and citizenship This is a loony bin, Moira said. I'm so glad to see you, I said. Where can we talk? said Moira. Washroom, I said. Watch the clock. End stall, two-thirty. That was all we said. It makes me feel safer, that Moira is here. We can go to the washroom if we put our hands up, though there's a limit to how many times a day, they mark it down on a chart. I watch the clock, electric and round, at the front over the green blackboard. Two-thirty comes during Testifying. Aunt Helena is here, as well as Aunt Lydia, because Testifying is special. Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers' franchise operation in Iowa. She's good at Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen and had an abortion. She told the same story last week. She seemed almost proud of it, while she loony bin – geðdeild to testify – vitna Weight Watchers – bandarísk megrunarsamtök gang-raped – verður fyrir hópnauðgun Elisabeth Moss as Offred in The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjIxNzc=