Woman Escapes After 54 Years In Prison

By Author: Gina Large
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A truly remarkable real-life story on one woman's dramatic escape to freedom.
On May 5, 1947, by a cruel twist of Fate, a young female, a child of the universe, found herself trapped in the wrong place at the wrong time. As a result, a terrible miscarriage of justice occurred, which was to remain covered up for 54 long and painful years. This girl had committed no crime. Her only ‘sin', if that's what it was, is that she wanted to exist, she wanted to experience life (like everyone else), she simply wanted to ‘be'. But she had come into this world in a hostile environment. She had no place here. No rights. No home of her own. And the Inner Authority in me, the part I shall call the ‘Controller', decided that she must be imprisoned for life. There was no trial, no appeal, no question of parole, and no one need ever have known that she existed. The Controller kept a tight rein, doing what he thought was for the best, but it was a harsh regime. Life meant life. But this little lady didn't die. She survived in her solitary confinement for 19,723 days, just watching, waiting, and wishing. She saw ...
... the life she should have had, a life she would have enjoyed so much, slipping away, as she shadowed the boy, the youth, the man who took all those years as his own. He could put on a fine show in his studies and in his work, for the world to see and admire. But what they didn't know was that he was such an unhappy soul underneath. Constantly living in fear, in a permanent, severe anxiety state. Keeping himself to himself. Feeling incomplete and out of place. Unable to relax in company. Never mixing. Never, ever letting go. And, all this time, he didn't understand why he was suffering so much inside. The Controller kept this secret safely hidden from the conscious mind, so it was only in the twilight world of the subconscious and in the misty realms of sleep that the terrible truth was allowed to be told. Then bitter arguments would rage between the rivals, who, it is understood, were brother and sister. The prisoner exerted her feminine influence in many subtle ways - it was always her gentleness, her sensitivity, her emotions, her interests - and, as the years went by, more and more it was the Woman Within who was really calling the shots, but her growing power passed unnoticed. For several years, the tension was rising, as if some great tropical storm was building up. By May 5 2001, the 54th anniversary of that miscarriage of justice, it felt as if this long-awaited storm was about to burst. Ten days later, it did, and all hell let loose inside, as the prisoner made her ‘now or never' dash for freedom, out into the fresh air of a world she'd only ever seen through the bars of her cell. She made it, but only just, as the Controller was equally determined to quell this rebellion and restore the status quo. There followed a tremendous internal struggle, which, several times, brought both sides to the brink of death. But, having waited so long, come hell or high water, there was no way now that our escapee was going to let her one chance of freedom, long overdue, slip away. Her name? Well, as her story was every bit ‘the Genie coming out of the bottle' our heroine became known as ‘Gina'. And Gina is the lady who speaks to you now, as a free woman. This is her true story.... About the Author The truly remarkable story of the writer's traumatic and reluctant, but inevitable, transgender journey of discovery, after a lifetime spent running away from herself.