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The routines that governed their lives included Dee Dee shunning any semblance of normalcy for Gypsy. This included shaving her head, blending meals to inject them through a tube, and dosing her with various medications that masked a dark secret: Gypsy was not the gravely ill child she appeared to be. The façade extended to a neighbor, Lacey, who initially bonded with Gypsy but soon began to tire of Dee Dee’s overbearing demeanor.