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GregFL:
What is your status as a seed kid and how long were you there and what year?  Were you a graduate? Staff Member? Junior Staff? Seed Employee? Did you leave before Graduating?

I will start.

GregFL:
Entered the St Pete Seed July 1973.

Graduated 192 days later.

Never employed there, never on staff.

Had experimented with Pot and some other drugs, but had been totally drug free for the entire summer except for a bit drunk on one occasion.

Had two necomers and didn't particularly know how to treat a captive human under my control. Can't even remember your names, but I apologize for my part in the whole thing.

marcwordsmith:
Entered Fort Lauderdale Seed (after surprise kidnap by my parents and two strangers who were also Seed parents) in late October 1972. I was 14, and had smoked a little pot (not much).

Graduated late March 1972, a week or two after my 15th birthday.

Never employed, never on staff, never took a newcomer

Note of (possible) interest: My newcomer-living-away-from-home phase lasted 32 days.

Further note: At the first Homes rap during which I was eligible to go home (that is, 14 days or so into my incarceration), John Underwood said, "I think he deserves a chance." Thanks John. I wonder who overruled you?

Anonymous:
October 1974 - June 1975 - St. Petersburg - Graduate - 15 years old - Seed closed 1 week before my anniversary date.

Front row - 90+ days the first go round, 30 days or so later started over, 30+ days the second go row, back to school (Mirror Lake Adult Education Center to pick-up credits for the missed sophmore year) for a couple of months and then graduated.

Never had a newcomer, too many oldcomers to count, even got moved once in the middle of the night to the P family household in Tarpon Springs - oldcomer walked away.

Nikki

cleveland:
Entered the Cleveland Seed on August 15, 1978, following my brother, who was then an oldcomer. I was 19 years old. I had smoked pot ocassionally, and had gotten drunk a few times, but my family was riddled with alcohol abuse so I was scared, an depressed. I was told to "come in a try the Seed for three days and if you like it, stay." From day one it was clear to me that leaving was strongly discouraged, and that everyone would regard me as a failure. A couple of months later, while still on the front row, the Cleveland Seed closed and I was relocated to Florida. After a total of six months, I was graduated, and was encouraged to "stick around as an oldcomer and help out." Since I had left all friends and family behind (my brother had moved back to Cleveland), this seemed to be the best plan. I "stuck around" for the next seven years, finally leaving in the middle of the night on October 30th, 1985. (I had always been "free to leave" I guess, but in the way that I am now "free" to walk out of my house and abandon my family and everything I know.)

I was never on staff or worked at the Seed, and although I had lived with several newcomers, I never "took one home" - in other words, had primary responsibility for one.

Walter

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