I was apprehensive of going back, older, fatter and with grey hair. I was also very worried that my very fond memories of that time of my life would somehow be blemished. But on August 30th 2014. 20 years after end of my Thorn reign ended I stepped back into time.
History
In the summer of 1992 Robert Johnston called my house with two important messages. First he was back in town. Second he was living downtown on the street.
I was on the next #15 bus to downtown, within a week I was at the City Nightclub and my whole life changed. By March of 1993 I was elected Thorn 17 and was “King of the Gay’s
Drugs
Lanny Swerdlow the owner of the City Nightclub use to take to the stage and promote his pro-marijuana agenda. As a 18 year old standing in a club were sex and drugs were common place
secretly pretending not to be the square I was.
But this time when he took to the stage and preached I heard his words through a very different filter. The filer of an adoptive father of three children all prenatally drug exposed.