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conulyI'm not sure we even bought that subscription, we might have gotten it for free somehow.
Anyway, no reading materials were really off-limits to anybody in the house so magazines might as well belong to anybody. I don't remember anything from that magazine other than one personal article one month about a Tranquility Bay-style troubled teen reform "school". Except that this article came out before the news around those places really spread around, and the tone was overwhelmingly positive.
It hit on all the same points all contemporary exposes do - the late-night kidnapping, the terrible food (and never enough of it), the strict rules against talking to other residents or even looking at them until enough good behavior had been logged, and so on, but whoever wrote it (and god, now I hope that this was all fictional) had really bought into the story that all this is beneficial and necessary to keep kids from jumping right off that slippery slope.
Every once in a while since then I think about that article and wonder about the girl who wrote it. Hopefully not a real person, but if she was, I wonder if she's all right today. No way of knowing, I guess.
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These Stunning Portraits of Insects Reveal the Intricacies of an Amazing World
Control Freaks
How to make butter-pie: A tutorial
Paralympics fans learn when to be silent and when to make noise at sports for the visually impaired
Marijuana Is Too Strong Now
All-black outfits, hoodies, Crocs, cell phones and mirrors. Some students are returning to school with new bans in effect
'Make them pay': Thousands of Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott hotel workers on strike across US (Also)
The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
Phoenix hits 100 degrees Fahrenheit for a record 100th straight day as heat scorches western U.S.
As the far right rises in eastern Germany, companies struggle to attract skilled foreign workers (Also)
Massive protests hit Israel after six hostages killed in Gaza (Also a strike)
U.S. charges Hamas leaders with terrorism in connection with Oct. 7 attacks
Trump claims he had ‘every right’ to interfere in 2020 election (Can he just fucking drop dead and die already!?)
Anyway, no reading materials were really off-limits to anybody in the house so magazines might as well belong to anybody. I don't remember anything from that magazine other than one personal article one month about a Tranquility Bay-style troubled teen reform "school". Except that this article came out before the news around those places really spread around, and the tone was overwhelmingly positive.
It hit on all the same points all contemporary exposes do - the late-night kidnapping, the terrible food (and never enough of it), the strict rules against talking to other residents or even looking at them until enough good behavior had been logged, and so on, but whoever wrote it (and god, now I hope that this was all fictional) had really bought into the story that all this is beneficial and necessary to keep kids from jumping right off that slippery slope.
Every once in a while since then I think about that article and wonder about the girl who wrote it. Hopefully not a real person, but if she was, I wonder if she's all right today. No way of knowing, I guess.
These Stunning Portraits of Insects Reveal the Intricacies of an Amazing World
Control Freaks
How to make butter-pie: A tutorial
Paralympics fans learn when to be silent and when to make noise at sports for the visually impaired
Marijuana Is Too Strong Now
All-black outfits, hoodies, Crocs, cell phones and mirrors. Some students are returning to school with new bans in effect
'Make them pay': Thousands of Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott hotel workers on strike across US (Also)
The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
Phoenix hits 100 degrees Fahrenheit for a record 100th straight day as heat scorches western U.S.
As the far right rises in eastern Germany, companies struggle to attract skilled foreign workers (Also)
Massive protests hit Israel after six hostages killed in Gaza (Also a strike)
U.S. charges Hamas leaders with terrorism in connection with Oct. 7 attacks
Trump claims he had ‘every right’ to interfere in 2020 election (Can he just fucking drop dead and die already!?)
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Date: 2024-09-04 02:53 pm (UTC)I was just thinking the other day about an article that haunts me that way but now I can't remember it.
Ah, teen reform camps. My parents used to threaten me with those among other things, so I looked them up and read about the horrors related approvingly. ugh.