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"All Cyndy wanted was to be loved and accepted. By age fourteen, she had escaped from her violent home, only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. To the public, Straight Inc. was a place of recovery. But behind closed doors, the program used [what might be seen as] bizarre and intimidating methods to treat its patients. In her ... memoir, Cyndy Etler recounts her sixteen months in the living...
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"I wasn't popular before I got locked up in Straight Inc., the notorious "tough love" program for troubled teens. But when you're psychologically beaten for sixteen months, you start to absorb the lessons. The lessons in Straight were: You are evil. Your peers are evil. Everything is evil except Straight, Inc. Before long, you're a true believer. And when you're finally released, sent back into the world, you crave safety. Crave being back in the...
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