Carole Smith's The Magic Castle

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I have started a new book, but the one I was reading before was called The Magic Castle: A Mother's Harrowing True Story Of Her Adoptive Son's Multiple Personalities-- And The Triumph Of Healing by Carole Smith and I didn’t find it very interesting. The book was about a boy with a multiple personalities disorder and talked about all the things that happened to him and how his brain was working. I didn’t find my past book all that interesting because it didn’t explain the things that were happening to his brain and why those things were happening very clearly. I sort of wished this book would have been more analytical with all the psychology related situations because that is what I am more interested in. Carole Smith narrated the book, so I

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