Reply #21: Right back at you, L. A....

[cliffordu]

When I was a kid I found out that my name wasn't really my name, and the father I thought was mine, wasn't.....And I developed this little mantra:

"Everything you think you know is wrong"

When I was in Vietnam I saw that we were the same dull monsters we were supposed to be fighting, not John Wayne, or Audie Murphy, or Sergent York...

"Everything you think you know is wrong"

I drank and used drugs for so many years and lied about it that the truth of any stripe didn't live anywhere near me at the end....

So I sobered up, and thought I was going to be fine, at last. After five years in the program and not touching a drop and still being crazy and dangerous and in the kind of pain that suicide relieves, I got diagnosed with a mental illness.

"Everything you think you know is wrong"

So, Fuck yeah, I'm used to reality suddenly becoming somewhat different than my current understanding of it....But that's OK.

Makes me flexible.
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