Here is another email from another synanon member:
Rose was a new member of a wealthy and powerful cult, then at the
> peak of power. Despite this she only mentions SY once, in a single
> para describing her dining room job, no mention of the game and many
> other things (like general meetyings) that must have been as
> frightening for her as they were for all of us when new. Despite
> being under the pressure on newks (HOW DID ANY OF US SURVIVE THAT
> PAIN AND TERROR OF BEING NEW!?, except maybe that guys like Bernie
> and my tip leaders XXXXXXX and XXXXXX took us under
> thier wings, and we were so sick and tired of waking up sick for a
> shot that Sy was a better deal...) she expresses an earnest concern
> for her brother, who she loves and does not want to have move away
> to Texas.
>
> She is a sixties sister, trying to find her way into a hard and
> unjforgiving world, a time when getting a job used to be the "13th
> Grade" after high school, but now the factories were shutting down
> and inflation was jacking prices month by month as the collective
> horror of the 1970's got rolling.
>
> At one time "moving on" was a choice, but the 1970's corrupted that
> choice along with all else into the "best of a bad lot", which is
> not a choice but a mocking echo and all that was left us then. By
> some miracle of the spirit we picked up the pieces of our lives and
> forged them into a new one.
>
XXXXX, you've done a terrific job in bringing this delicate young
> girl to life for us, and XXXXX as well for not shutting out a bad
> opening move by her relative, and giving her a .org page after she
> proved out as a real sis...
>
> What became of her I have no more idea than anyone, I don't remember
> her personally although her name gives a slight twinge of memory.
> She may have vanished, some did from back then. But I now feel she
> is back with us, the childish scrawl and phrasing of her letter is a
> testimony of Oliver Stone's ideal of the sixties "people trying to
> come to terms with turbulent times..." I'd reccomend that everyone
> try finding the time to read her letter posted by XXXXX, its like a
> window into a past that is lost forever but still lives within us.
> (XXXXX I hope you vacumned this letter into her page).