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September 9, 2023 • By Dave Mandl
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
Alexander Stille
I am part of this amazing scene. […] I feel privileged. The people on the outside live their depressed lives with one spouse and a friend or two. All of these people are potential friends to me. I have left my old family behind, with its dysfunction and abuse […]
We know their world of nuclear families and serial monogamy is going to come tumbling down all around them. […] Leave them to their cluelessness. We are the vanguard of the revolution. Watch us own the world.
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Dave Mandl
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