what a gift you have.
The butterfly gates. Being "walked to the gate" meant that you had succeeded in getting yourself kicked out (very hard) but then you were cut off from your family and persona non grata evermore.
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I left through these very gates, in quite a hurry, with a posse on my heels, and I was free!
In the 80's these were the gates of hell. And though they weren't locked, they might have well have been....
I spent many days painting these gates all by myself one spring...punishment for running away and getting sent back.
I ran away 5 times. Michael Desisto was a child molester and admitted it to me in a parent child.
This is "South Gate" that many left thru on their way to running away. The abuse endured by the students varies. Some actually bought into the DeSisto way. Most pretended to survive. The man was proven as a fraud.