{"id":1159,"date":"2021-04-27T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:36:34","slug":"gone-to-the-crazies-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/gone-to-the-crazies-a-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone to the Crazies: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:var(--awb-color8);border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"sqsrte-small\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gone-Crazies-Memoir-Alison-Weaver\/dp\/0061374016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gone to the Crazies: A Memoir<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Alison Weaver&#8217;s privileged upbringing hid the darker undertones of her childhood until her parents shipped her away, at fifteen, to the cultish Cascade School, warping her perception of reality. Upon graduation, set adrift in New York&#8217;s East Village in the 1990s, her life began a downward spiral marked by needles and late-night parties. Stumbling into free fall and mingling with fears of death, she was forced to face her darkness. 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