title: My Life Changed Forever: The Years I Have Lost as a Target of Organized Stalking
author:  Elizabeth Sullivan 
description: Due to the need for the author and her family to remain anonymous and as safe as possible, Elizabeth Sullivan is a pseudonym. The author has undergraduate and graduate degrees from U.S. universities, and she worked for many years in the corporate world.
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  The Lady's Maid's Bell
  
  
    
    
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  # The Lady's Maid's Bell
  
  
  ### Edith Wharton
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  IT WAS the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in
  
  
  hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two
  
  
  or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. Most of my money
  
  
  was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the
  
  
  employment agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any
  
  
  way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made
  
  
  me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. It did
  
  
  though—or I thought so at the time. A Mrs. Railton, a friend of the
  
  
  lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and
  
  
  stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendl