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I lived in the hosptial/halfway house they talk about in movie


The halfway house they talk about in the movie in Cedar Rapids was Hillcrest House - it has since closed and changed to a women's home. I actually lived in this house back in the early 1990's when it was a transition home for mentally ill to live on their own. Also, the institution where she meets with the children, talks to Jesse, all five kids walk up the hill where Callie tells them she didn't want them to live with her brother and at the end where John and Wanda drive away with the kids is the Abbe Center - it is the Linn County mental health ward - I lived there before going to Hillcrest House. The road that they drive away on at the end of the movie is County Home Road (in Marion, IA) and they are headed east towards Whitter, IA.
Don't think I am crazy because I lived at these places - I was sick with bipolar disorder (very similar to Callie) but both places got be better and able to live a very close to normal life.

dawn

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