In the late sixties, in my sixteenth and seventeenth years, I underwent a basic meltdown, and put my parents through a harrowing ordeal which they did not deserve, and which they did nothing to cause. I ran away repeatedly, on one occasion to the island of Bimini in the Caribbean, where, stepping out of a bar, [...]
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. 2. By the oily Rock River: factory nights
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. 3. Along a wild stretch of the Calawah: wandering after Han-Shan
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Looking for work, I hit the road On a cold wet dawn in October of 1972, in my twenty-second year, my wife Vickie dropped me off on a lonely stretch of highway outside of Rockford, Illinois. We had hit a rocky patch, made worse by the fact that, as I had been on the losing end of a [...]
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