“During the days immediately preceding her operation, I saw Marilyn two or three times daily. Often she would be sitting moodily as I entered, but as always she suddenly seemed cheered whenever anyone came to see her. Sometimes she would sitting and gazing out at the skyline visible from her room’s window. When she did, her mood seemed to be that of a caged wilting fawn yearning to return to a freer life outside.”
Dr Richard Cottrell, who treated Marilyn in 1961 when she had gallbladder surgery, writing in Ladies’ Home Companion (1965.)
Thanks to Suus-Marie at Everlasting Star