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Celebration of Life for Miriam
Details: The Celebration is scheduled for January 6, 2024 in Visalia California at 2:30PM – RSVP to Rumery@comcast.net (Beth Rumery) Beth…
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Born in Synanon
Here is the trailer to Cassidy Arkin’s docuseries to be aired on Paramount Plus on December 12th. My reaction? Gut punch.…
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Miriam (Levine Crawford) Bourdette
Wasn’t that a clever thing to say? I had never met anyone like Miriam…”
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The First Week:
“I never did meet Chuck.”… “Later he said he didn’t know how to talk to Black people. “
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Property Damage – CED & The Game
It’s a game until you game Chuck. And then all bets are off when it comes to truth and consequences.
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Memories of Margo – Celebrating her Life
Bisbee—Four Days, Five Nights By Josh Millstein There are all sorts of love—filial, quarrelsome, starstruck, unrequited, platonic, big. Woven like a…
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I Loved Margo
By Gita Endore I loved Margo. And Margo let you love her. I remember her from Santa Monica. My dad was…
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I Thought I’d Write a Memoir
By Janet Best Dart It was harder than I thought. Before I wrote my still-to-be-named memoir of my time in Synanon,…
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The Game Was Not Free Speech
(In Response to Elena’s Post https://synanon.com/2023/09/11/many-a-blunder-and-foolish-notion/) You say “All words (in the Game) were free to be said or unsaid. No…
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Thinking About the Game
“For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from…
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A Ginny Story
“Out of the Game”…”no one approached me to put me on a ban from music but I thought it over–partly to…
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Ginny Shorin Teitelbaum Dederich
Celebration of Life I think everyone here knows of Ginny’s passing this Monday, July 10 just a month or so after…
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Remembering Bill Crawford
Sylvia Forest Crawford Bill Crawford left this existence on October 12, 2004. In Synanon, he was a Director of the Oakland…
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Vicki Stephenson (neeVanDalsem, Kaufman)
Photography – my Passion and my escape! I came to Synanon in 1968 as a freckled-faced, pig tail-wearing pre-teen – then…
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Irving Goldworm’s interview With Margo
This is an excerpt from Irving’s unpublished manuscript entitled “Consenting Addicts Life in Synanon” With permission from Kim Elinski M A…
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Margo Macartney
Remembering Margo “What Margo helped me understand a little better was the paradox at the heart of Synanon, and for that…
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A Poem for Margo’s Mate
The Downside of Partnering Up with Someone with a Host of Quite-Voluble Friends who Feel They are Owed a Portion of…
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Many A Blunder and Foolish Notion
In a land of faraway and forgotten dreams, there once was a human circle, where there were no fatal words. All…
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The House of Blackwelder
And she was black. And she was beautiful. Though she was much more than that to herself, and to so many…
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My Wedding Night
I remember thinking, this is not how a girl should spend her wedding night, a girl should be with her husband…
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Who Knew Chester Was Drinking?
“What do you want me to do make a lifestyle out of proving that Chester is drinking?”
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