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Celebration of Life – Margo Macartney
This announcement is on behalf of Margo’s partner Helise Dubnick, If you plan to attend please contact her directly at 520-366-1391.…
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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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Bench Stories
Sitting on the bench meant you were either waiting to be let in or waiting to leave. Sitting on the bench, you…
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Remembering Chris Benton
I was glad to see that you had made it past your 73rd birthday. The way of the carpenter is…
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Josh Millstein
I tell my story; I dine out on it. I can tell you how Synanon ticked for me: It saved my…
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CBS series – Cassidy Arkin
I am the daughter of Synanon members Ed Arkin and Sandy Arkin Rogers-Hare, born in 1974 and raised in the Hatchery…
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THE GOOD, THE BEAUTIFUL, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
I found out a couple of years ago that I had lived in a “cult.” The cult is the new bugaboo,…
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Synanon Industries
A business illiterate, I don’t know an invoice from a purchase order or the difference between “shipped” and “delivered”. But I…
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Naya Arbiter Celebration of Life
Her compassion extended beyond people. She was outspoken about the environment and climate change, and was a lifelong vegetarian who carried…
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A Recipe for Clean Man Days
In addition to verbal wrestling, the game provided an outlet for frustration, pouting, self-pity and disappointment. From time to time it…
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It’s Been a Real Trip
Terry Hurst Blanton describes her role in the origin of the Synanon Trip From Terry’s Memoir It’s Been A Real Trip:…
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How to Treat an Addict:
Institutional Confinement, Mutual Aid, and Self Realization in Postwar Los Angeles Jordan Mylet University of California, San Diego Abstract: Responses to…
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Brains and Beauty
Both Carina and Jordan believe that now, more than ever, Synanon’s early model of “community as therapy” is one that should be…
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Apologies to Jim from Zoe
We are sorry we showed porn to your niece Written by Zoe Bagger I wrote this on December 22, 2021, so…
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Mother Blair
Let’s give a cheer to the motorcycle man A two wheelin’ wizard from a two fisted clan An Emersonian Enigma; no…
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