Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than 200 of the letters-including one written on a scrap of cardboard from a milk carton-were found last week in a box on the porch of his cabin at Jonestown. They offer moving insights into the adherents' obsessive loyalty to their leader, whom they addressed as "Dad, "and reveal minds bent upon self-abasement and sometimes self-destruction. The excerpts that follow use the spelling and punctuation of the original letters...
...respect Dad the way I should. I respect Dad out of fear of getting in trouble. Rather than respecting him for what he is, a Marxist Lenist. When I'm in a follower role and not in a supervisoral role, I feel threatened that people are against me which isn't true and comes back to my elitetism...
...waisted money buying cars and trucks, and I waisted money buying candy and soda pop, hamburgers, clothing that I didn't need. And I waist money buying gasoline and oil, waist money paying telephone bills, now Dad after hearing your teaching about how the tax off these above itms help to keep our sisters and brothers in slavement I feel very guilty. Oh yes, I bought beear, whisky, cigars, cigarettes by the carton and I feel guilt...
...home of Andrew Gaines that when eldest Daughter Donna told him she was flying off to Europe to be in a production of Hair, she got her face slapped soundly. "Daddy," she pleaded, "this is my big chance. Shirley Temple was a little kid. Did her mother stop her?" Dad's riposte, or his reaction to 1) her marriage to an Austrian actor from Hair, 2) her divorce in 1974 or 3) his first hearing of Love to Love You Baby are not a matter of public record. But snapshots of Mom and Dad enclosed in a heart-shaped frame...
...know, the other day I was in New York and this college student came up to me and introduced himself. Turns out I had tutored his father when he was in high school in Brooklyn." Kaplan sighs and smiles. "If his Dad had told me way back then that I'd have 80 centers and a place like this," he continues, "I would have told him to have his head examined...