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Offline Matt B

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Hello everyone! ...Atlanta Straight alumni here....
« on: June 27, 2002, 01:24:00 PM »
I've been on hiatus from the Straight forums for quite some time now.(I found myself caught up in all those bad ol' memories there for a while, and decided I needed to focus on more positive things.)
I've managed to contact several old commerades from the Hellhole I was in down in Marietta, GA. Ain't the internet dandy?
Anyway, if you were in Straight,Atlanta during the late 80's, chime in just in case we know each other. Or just chime in anyway. ; )
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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2002, 01:40:00 PM »
Hey Matt, I was there a few years before you, in 84.  Good to hear you're focusing on the positive.  I try to as well but every once in a while it all sneaks up on me again.  To me the cool thing about all these posts is finding out that most people survived and are leading fulfilling lives, when at the time I was in it all seemed so hopeless.
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« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2002, 11:43:00 AM »
I was there all throughout the '80s. -Clay
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« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2002, 09:57:00 PM »
Hey, Kausmonaut! Thanks for the reply. It's good to find other Straight survivors that have done well. I have managed alright, but I, like most others, have been forever scarred by that ordeal, and fairly often, still, find myself having to "get over it" again, and again. I am even actually angry that I didn't know then what I know now. I should have copped out and went "straight" to a lawyer's office and sued 'em all for violating my civil rights. But, that was then, this is now. I shouldn't be ranting in this post, anyway.
Good to meet you---it's better we met here than in that hellhole.
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« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2002, 10:01:00 PM »
Yeah, poor ol' Clay spent damn near all the 80's in Straight. You took it in stride, though, huh? Probably even worked at Mr. Pride Carwash at one time or another. I know I did.
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2002, 11:07:00 PM »
Hell No! I never was part of the Mr. Pride chiche`. I had me a government job working with Abby (can't rememer the last name's) Dad. You'd remember her. A flat out babe that drove that Black Fiat Spyder. I can still picture her in tight jeans leading a rap. The government job paid very well and I had lots of days off and pretty good benefits also. If you can ever get one of them take it. They would be seriously disappointes if your put in a full days work.
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2002, 04:58:00 PM »
OMG ! I worked there
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2002, 05:28:00 PM »
Clay, her last name was Orr and yes she was a hottie. My first day there somebody had spraypainted "Scabby Whore" on the side of the building. It took me a while to figure that one out.

Scott
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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2002, 05:31:00 PM »
I was not in the group with you but I think my mom was on staff the first year of Straight Atlanta - her name was Dorothy Sykes
did you know her?
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« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2002, 05:50:00 PM »
Kosmonaut , Care to give your name ?



Scott Lewis

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« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2002, 06:17:00 PM »
Marnie Sykes
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« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2002, 06:33:00 PM »
Hi, Matt and Marnie,

I was in Marietta Straight in 1982. We may have even spoken before by email, but you were going by a different screen name then if we did. When I was there, David Tilley (sp?) was the director. He'd been my principle at a local middle school, and he actually talked me into going into the program.

I'm just curious: I know Ann Crow ended up in Real Estate, but whatever happened to her son and Mrs. Byrd's son, the redheaded guy with the ducktail.  I heard that a lot of the staff got caught doing drugs in 83 or 84.

And can you refresh my memory? What was the bathroom incident?
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2002, 06:40:00 PM »
Hi, I'm trying to figure out what this bathroom incident was as well; it happened just a few days before my DAY 1. There were whispers about it, but discussing it was taboo. I never found out what happened.

Scott Lewis
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« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2002, 06:50:00 PM »
This happened just after I got out in Dec of 84. Apparently the Dir decided he'd had enough of the fucking misbehavers and decieded to confront the issue head on. With the help of several of the more gung-ho 5th phasers and some of the staff, the misbehavers were taken into the bathroom and shown what life in the gutter was like. From what I heard they had their heads flushed in the toilets and, with no pretense of restraining the client, had the hell beaten out of them. I think there were some broken bones. Several staff members were fired including the Director, all the participating 5th phasers were started over or thrown out of the program. Tom really could tell you more about it he was still there.
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« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2002, 06:56:00 PM »
What'up Clay ? That clears things up. I think it happened earlier than that, because in September of 84 when I got there I;m pretty sure it had already happened (but I could be wrong).

ps Mr Pride was the job to have. Are you kidding ? In a word: Sunshine.

Scott
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