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My last post was about 2 years ago.  I had just been kicked out by the FFS and dropped off in downtown binghamton.  I was a scared child working from pay check to pay check trying to find myself as a person.  I became extremely well connected and eventually found myself with the resources to get into SUNY Binghamton, a division one university without ever having completed my high school education.  I am now only a couple of days away from finishing the first semester of my sophomore year.  Part of finding myself was finding out what the traumatic experience that I had just had meant to me in life.  The FFS taught me about concepts such as honesty, openmindedness and willingness on a level that I hadn't yet seen.  I became a very strong willed person and I devote a very large part of my life to the very tenets that I was kicked out of that institution for allegedly not following.  I am not an Ivy league graduate nor am I anything more than a struggling college student who has a couple of more life experiences under his belt than most.  I do however know this: regardless of experiences within the school, individuals who even exert the effort to live their lives according to the school's tenets will be successful and happy.  I am living proof.  The school is messed up, it messes people's heads up, almost every product I have seen of that school has serious issues that were fostered merely by being there, however the tenets do work and the sch ool attempts to take any steps possible to force the individuals within its walls to live by them.  One can judge this in two ways: the school is in fact a hypocritical institution that WILL fuck your child up probably to a different level than they were before they went in.  The staff are, generally speaking, not very good people and they don't live by their own prescribed tenets.  The success rate is mediocre.  On the other side, find me an alternative when a child is simply unwilling to accept rules and is behaving in a way which is usually both criminal and addictive?  To all of you who want to sue that place, find me an alternative to the 12 steps and judeo christian ideals (not the reality but the ideals), an easier softer way of sorts.  I devote a portion of my time to helping fellow strays from the FFS.  Anyone who reads this should feel free to contact me, I am a very open person who will talk to just about anyone about just about anything.  email me at your own risk!
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