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My Son is Homeless

  • July 18, 2016
  • by Marjorie Witt
My son is a 42 year old homeless man who lives on the streets of West Oakland. This is not only our story, most homeless people that you see have a family somewhere.
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Overeaters Anonymous

  • October 14, 2015
  • by Steve Slavin
My experience in a Overeaters anonymous meeting. “I am just a fat man trapped in a thin man’s body.”
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Too High Too Far Too Soon

  • June 28, 2015
  • by Simon Mason
An excerpt from Simon Mason’s “Too High Too Far Too Soon”, a revelatory rock ‘n’ roll memoir of a life of drugs, Britpop and spiralling drug addiction.
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