Dr Louise Despert was a close friend of my grandmother, a renowned psychiatrist, a brilliant artist, and a well published author describing child behavior. Her offices were on Park Avenue and she prospered well. She was the first to identify autism in children on the 1930s.
Born in France and she died on Long Island. But, and this is the tragic part, she ends up buried in Potters Field, the place for paupers. I knew her well and have her paintings of my grandmother. Louise was a physician of children's minds and my grandmother of infectious diseases but they were life long friends. She was very well off. Thus how does someone like this end up in Potters Fields, a pauper?
There is a mystery here worth exploring. She was not a person to spend excessively, had many colleagues but somehow someone may likely have taken over her wealth, and left her remains to the State.
This is a true tragedy, one worth examining.
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