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Oran Canfield
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Oran Canfield
Oran Canfield was born in Leveret, Massachusetts, in 1974. After being abandoned by his father as a baby, he was raised by his mother in Central America and the San Francisco Bay Area. By the time he was 10 years old, he had lived in nearly 15 different situations, including a two-year stint as a juggler in the circus. Though he hated performing,...



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Long Past Stopping
by Oran Canfield

It looked like any other medical chart, with different boxes filled in with my blood pressure and heart rate, but at the bottom, next to Diagnosis, the doctor simply wrote, Terminal Assholism. Juggled between an endless succession of friends, relatives, anarchist boarding schools, libertarian commune dwellers, socialist rebels, and born-again...
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