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Maria von Bank
Biography
Born in Heimberg, Switzerland in 1962
Teufenerstrasse , Bühler , Switzerland
I am the unwanted child of my loveless mother
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Teufenerstrasse , Bühler , Switzerland
Herrmoos , Bühler , Switzerland
At age 5, I suffer from my father’s violence, violence imposed by my mother
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Herrmoos , Bühler , Switzerland
Im Hölzli , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 6, the school confirms my hyperactivity
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Im Hölzli , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Stofelweid , Teufen , Switzerland
At age 7, I suffer from loneliness and start drinking my parents’ alcohol
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Stofelweid , Teufen , Switzerland
Goliathgasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 8, my brother is sent to reform school
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Goliathgasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Bohl , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 13, I find comfort with friends and smoke hashish and marihuana with them, and take LSD
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Bohl , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Via Gerolamo Porta , Chiasso , Switzerland
At age 15, a friend gives me my first shot of morphine
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Via Gerolamo Porta , Chiasso , Switzerland
Bahnhofplatz , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 15, my parents put me out in the street
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Bahnhofplatz , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Corso Enrico Pestalozzi , Lugano , Switzerland
At age 16, I shoot heroin and morphine
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Corso Enrico Pestalozzi , Lugano , Switzerland
Sankt Leonhard-Strasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 17, I start school at the wish of my parents and am expelled because of my drug addiction
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Sankt Leonhard-Strasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Bohl , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 19, I also use cocaine, tranquillisers, and medicine
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Bohl , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Spitalstrasse , Herisau , Switzerland
At age 21, my mentally retarded son is born
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Spitalstrasse , Herisau , Switzerland
Von Erlachweg , Hindelbank , Switzerland
At age 22, I am detained and lose, through my parents’ intervention, the custody of my child
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Von Erlachweg , Hindelbank , Switzerland
Waldheimstrasse , Bern , Switzerland
At age 22, I am in love with a woman, use fewer drugs, and escape from prison
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Waldheimstrasse , Bern , Switzerland
Langstrasse , Zurich , Switzerland
At age 24, I fall back into polytoxicomaniacal drug abuse and deal hashish to finance my addiction
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Langstrasse , Zurich , Switzerland
Rosenbergstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 27, I use no drugs apart from methadone in oder to get two planned children
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Rosenbergstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Bahnhofplatz , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 32, I relapse into drug abuse with my boyfriend and have my children placed in a foster home
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Bahnhofplatz , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Davidstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 38, I live in fatal dependence of a man and of drugs
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Davidstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Grünhaldenstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 40, I am homeless, and live in shelters or on the streets
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Grünhaldenstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Davidstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 42, my boyfriend forces me into prostitution and I stab him
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Davidstrasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Teufener Strasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
At age 43, I break down and am committed to a psychiatric hospital
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Teufener Strasse , St. Gallen , Switzerland
Von Erlachweg , Hindelbank , Switzerland
At age 44, I am taken into custody
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Von Erlachweg , Hindelbank , Switzerland
Von Erlachweg , Hindelbank , Switzerland
At age 45, I fear dreams that announce my death
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Von Erlachweg , Hindelbank , Switzerland
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