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"if you don't, she will die"
GregFL:
In the Seed intake office, sitting at a table with her daughter and a Seed staffer, the mother recalls that she thought "I don't want this for my daughter."
and
"If they lie on this they'll lie on the other thing..
While initially duped and caught up in the whole "they're gonna die without the seed" hype, this mom turned out to be one smart cookie.
We should of all been so lucky. Now, If we could just find out who this girl was, and what happened to her.
I mean, did she die, go insane or is she in jail now?
I doubt it.
Antigen:
Sorry, don't mean to hijack your thread. This is all good reading. But I do want to interject something here.
--- Quote ---From: The Smoking Gun
In additon to these rap sheet creations, Frey also invented a role for himself in a deadly train accident that cost the lives of two female high school students. In what may be his book's most crass flight from reality, Frey remarkably appropriates and manipulates details of the incident so he can falsely portray himself as the tragedy's third victim. It's a cynical and offensive ploy that has left one of the victims' parents bewildered. "As far as I know, he had nothing to do with the accident," said the mother of one of the dead girls. "I figured he was taking license...he's a writer, you know, they don't tell everything that's factual and true."
Frey appears to have fictionalized his past to propel and sweeten the book's already melodramatic narrative and help convince readers of his malevolence. "I was a bad guy," Frey told Winfrey. "If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways." That is repeatedly apparent in his memoir, which announces, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal." It is an incantation he repeats eight times in the book, always making sure to capitalize the 'c' in Criminal.
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Where do ya'll suppose he learned that trick?
If TCs were interested in treating substance abuse, half the time they'd tell mom "Sorry ma'am, we can't help him. He's not an addict, he's just an asshole.
--GregFL
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Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2006-01-13 07:27:00, GregFL wrote:
Rumors fly and it is built into "ropes and chains". Fear ruled the day if you were a teenager in St Pete.
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Yup, it was very much the same in Ft. Lauderdale there for awhile. I don't remember believing very strongly in the stuff about ropes and chains. But I damned sure was walking on egg-shells for a good many of my most formative years.
Now THAT is the Seed I was in. And it did help prepare me for Straight in very real and significant ways. It still sucked and it still was a monumental mindfuck. However, it wasn't anywhere near as disorienting to me as it was for most kids. I was well familiar with the culture and language and well able to navigate in it.
So thanks, Ter, John, Lybbi and all the rest of you mindfuckers for my basic training. It served me very well in real combat.
I don't believe in Jesus.
--John Lennon, British songwriter and member of "The Beatles"
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Antigen:
Man, listen to this interview! Hear anything sorta like a home town accent? Like, inapropriate interrogative inflection?
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/w ... kid=559271
Those who control the past, control the future; and those who control the present, control the past.
--George Orwell
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Antigen:
--- Quote ---While the book is brimming with improbable characters--like the colorful mafioso Leonard and the tragic crack whore Lilly, with whom Frey takes up in Hazelden--and equally implausible scenes, we chose to focus on the crime and justice aspect of "A Million Little Pieces." Which wasn't much of a decision since almost every character in Frey's book that could address the remaining topics has either committed suicide, been murdered, died of AIDS, been sentenced to life in prison, gone missing, landed in an institution for the criminally insane, or fell off a fishing boat never to be seen again.
While we do not doubt Frey spent time in rehab, there really isn't anyone left (besides the author himself) to vouch for many of the book's outlandish stories.
ibid
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.
--Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney
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