An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

saying, “No, don’t stick me with that! I can’t stand
needles.”
When I got to the psychiatrist’s office for an
interview, he saw my note and told me I should check
whatever was wrong with me. It said something like,
“Do you or have you ever.” I checked everything I
could think of from bedwetting to nightmares, drug
use and homosexual tendencies. Stuttering and appearing
like a mental wreck, he saw I wasn’t Army
material and gave me a 1-Y classification saying there
was no need for future reexamination.
As I checked out to leave, they asked if I
wanted counseling to get myself straightened out. I
told them, “No, I like being this way.” They gave me a
voucher for free lunch at a local restaurant, and I left a
free man.
Carolyn and I
After a while, I a got a job as a substitute carrier and
clerk with the post office. I rented a studio apartment
in the Haight and did abstract painting. I entered my
work in a post office art show in Golden Gate Park.
Carolyn and Richard decided to give up their
shop and wholesale earrings they made. They suggested
I share a two bedroom apartment with them. I
agreed. At the time, I was going with a cute eighteen
year old named Mary who I met at the Avalon Ballroom.
She lived with her parents in Daly City. When
she visited me, we did acid and made love.
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