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MUSIC IN THE MEMOIR
From Chapter: THE END OF SYNANON
From the Memoir: 
They called people like Art “hope-to-die-dopefiends.” He was like a soldier who was required to return to the front.

During that time I played a Joni Mitchell album all day long. I sang along with her about escape from pain: “River”: