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Fake Gay-Conversion Camp

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Stanford Prison Experiment

In Nordic lark, they called bleed, which is this idea that the fakeness feeling real. The climax of the piece is me sitting on the bunk in the morning and my body is racked in sobs. I'm just crying. I'm snorting all over the sheets. And your self, the stuff that you thought you were is gone. It's just gone. You're situationally a new person.

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