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On Not Being Alone with my Experience in Los Angeles

Just after writing, but before publishing Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir, the first book in my series, I did not know the next steps. My greatest hope was that the messages embedded in my narrative would help improve awareness that…

I am writing this series to provide a detailed inside account of a behavior modification program, from the point of view, not of an expert, but of a young person. I want to close the information gap, disrupt the secrecy, and document – in the most realistic way that words can allow – my time at Rocky Mountain Academy. I had a choice. I could do nothing, trying to ‘move on and get over’ the theft of my personal autonomy and self-determination when I was a kid. Or I could tell a wild true story, with a message that can effect change for troubled teens and their families.

Zack Bonnie – Author