Straight was so intense. And it sucked. You were stressed beyond your senses and privacy was unknown.
I learned some wicked shit in there. Pretty hard-core. 1984.(though I went in, in 85)
My mind flashes back to a view of the past. "Blue-light rain, unbroken chain...
...nail you to a cross"...
Everyone I know from the program is still some kind of a trip. Of course most folks I know who weren't in the program are all a gang of characters too. There were a lot of "eccentric" kids in there. The program was, in good part, a bulwark, cloaked in deceit, set up by the establishment against the cultural revolution. Cronus eating his children.