I just finished reading the entire 47 pages. I don't know who hosts this, but THANKS. What a gift to have a place to come and collect the memories of all of us.
I went in in the mid '70's. My parents took my glasses, I'm legally blind, and my brother had a gun or said he had a gun. From FL they drove me to Colloden Ga. Rolly was having a manic preaching fest that went on all day and most of the night, and yes, the bugs were enormous. They flew and made droning noises.
I no longer remember how long I was there, a couple of days? I was flown by Rolly with a girl from St. Croix (?) to Rebekah. I had been told it was all cool and I was going to a boarding school with horses and beaches, etc. I didn't know it was goats and f-ing chickens.
I was in the cross-over phase. I did have to shuck some corn, that was cool - fresh anything would have been cool. The chix thing was a disaster. I think I threw up all over. The food was mostly those dried up cubes that you had to reconstitute with water, then they puffed up. The PB was with honey and was considered a really big deal.
Colloden was antebellum, no air, humming in the rooms. The curtains were white and gauzy, seem to remember funny smell.
Aunt Neener was there with that Nurse and her alcoholic husband. What was the nurses' name? I managed to run, and I saw her husband go into a bar. He would come 'home' late and be drunk. I wasn't supposed to see that and I got hit for it.
I was there with Compton. The Camerons had Compton and another girl. Can't remember her name. These 2 girls were supposed to hold me down when Cameron beat the shit out of me for running. Compton was supposed to be a really tough one, but I felt sorry for her.
Yes, they ran the tapes all the time. Not all night, but it did seem that they ran them at night before bed. They definitiely ran the suckers during the time I was in lock up.
There was a girl named Kim who was supposed to be on of Rolly's fav's. She ended up in lock-up close to the time she was supposed to get out. She dug through the wall and ran during a church service and made it to Rolly's house. Whatever she did got her protection until she was able to go home.
Rolly's wife and kids were big missing 0's. We speculated on why.
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I am now 44, picking up the peace pipe, and trying to decide if it's worth forgiveness. They say true forgiveness is not possible without true contrition. Well, maybe he's (they) are burning in the flames of the hell they so believed in and preached in, and they're having true contrition now. Yeah, I don't believe that either.
So, anyone else still around that is out there??
Blue, set up a time, I'll come chat with you. Thur - Sun not a good time.
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