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Unkown Utah Wilderness Program 1999, Brown School San Marcos

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longtime:

--- Quote from: "Inculcated" ---You certainly have processed a lot in the time since reading Xandir’s experiences had an intensely emotional effect on you. It makes the appreciated depth and detail of your account all the more impressive. I was moved by these posts.
I looked to the other thread (as you instructed above) to read more. In the interest of continuity, I’ll place a link to that thread here. viewtopic.php?p=401790#p401790
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Thank you. It's been more than a decade since all of this happened and I've spent plenty of time processing what happened in therapy sessions. But, I am really surprised at how difficult it was to write even after all of that. This shit has got to stop.

Inculcated:
I’ll bet it was difficult to write, but I’m glad you did. I am also glad you’re in a better place in life now. I can understand eschewing speculation w/out certitude about the Wilderness program – especially given that it is/was out of Utah. Like finding a needle in a stack of kindling in a desert state-- which has been the last stop in the short life of too many kids who didn’t make it out to make their accounts known-- that would be.

IMHO, it won’t stop, but changing people’s perspectives via awareness seems promising. As you’ve noticed, Xandir is a stellar example of that. Various links to her story have recently been disseminated throughout the internet and even an appearance at a non TTI specific venue has likely opened some hearts and minds.

I mention this not only because you had mentioned Xandir, but also that you have been so exquisitely capable of composing your account of these many harrowing experiences in such a way that even those not familiar w/ TTI (who may not be aware of the TTI or in many cases not even aware of their biased assumptions about these many programs and their place in our society) can readily connect with.
This is impressive.

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