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dave-m:
what's up W!  (who are you? do you know me? do i know you?)

BIG SHOUT OUT to Karen K. Did we REALLY have that amazing conversation over the phone two day's ago?   yep.
Y O U  R O C K!  i appreciate our friendship and never take it for granite. 20 + years strong and gettin' better each year.

W. I don't know when i graduated. Hell, i can't even remember where the f#@k i put my car key's. but i did graduate. and yes, i do remember the tacky statues and the fireplace.

but check this out. Remember how they used to drill into our impressionable little minds that are parents were the BOMB and we weren't? shit, my mom was cool and all but she really needed to be medicated.

i bet there are allot of us who had destructive parents and we kept thinking everything was our fault.

i made peace with all that stuff many years later after i read this book called TOXIC PARENTS.

W.  i live in los angeles.

Anonymous:
hey dave it is may of 76 we entered as little seedings on the front row together........heck we were 'druggie' friends before that........i'll never tell your age!!!and yes dolores [dave's mom ] made the best food to bring in... no pb/j when she was running the kichen.........karen

cleveland:
Dave,

Were you on the front row with my brother, Evan? Check out the link above, from the Cato institute. Very interesting. He ran away three times...and he also lives in LA today.

Yeah, I also read Toxic Parents. Turned out my mom, a very wonderful person, also seems to have had some major depression, manic depression, and was working her way up to full blown alcoholism. She was pretty nutty during my teen years, not much support there, although she was 'doing her best' under the circumstances. My dad was the classic work twelve hours, come home, have a couple of drinks, and zone out kind of guy...no softball leagues or camping trips for me. It wasn't all bad, but that was a big part of what I was missing when I went into the seed - parenting. My parents were trying to raise themsilves - both came from families where heavy drinking was normal. I waited until my late 40s to have a child, hope to god I'm ready now.

Whatever Seed kids I ran into during my first three months were a blur, unless I lived with them, and even those memories are hazy...

Take care.

w

Ft. Lauderdale:
Actually Karen, I remember your x mother-in-law as being the best cook for lunches.  I still remember that after 30 years.

I think the average kid gained 20 lbs back then.

no food deprevation going on according to my scales.

NOT12NOW:
I definitely felt that way when I came into the program, equal parts fear and awe.  I exaggerated my drug use in my interview cause I wanted to impress Suzy and Scott. After I was admitted, and Scott was introducing me, saying my name and the drugs I'd done (pot and alcohol) he asked if I wanted to add any other drugs-- even though my parents had just left me in this weird place and I was really scared I had to stifle a smile.  It stroked my to my 12yr old  ego.

Had no idea what I was in for

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