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one year ago. Nl industries manufacturers of dutch boy paint turned this factory located in san Francisco's potrero hill district over to the cinnamon foundation to be used as another center by this unique organization day synonym. Held a news conference and had a birthday party to celebrate

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a year of rather remarkable achievement. Gone is the paint factory and in its place is a home for 110 residents and the business center for much of sin in statewide activities for the members who live here, there is now an attractive lounge for entertaining visitors, rooms

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for married couples and dormitory facilities for both single men and women. There are also areas for what is called the synonym game, a form of group therapy when the members indulge in considerable self analysis and criticism. But most importantly, this building has been made a commercial

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center. On the fifth floor is the business office for synonyms, industries supplies and bookkeeping. While the fourth floor houses the data processing center now used by synonym for inventory purposes, while in the back our floors and floors of warehouse space filled with food and other supplies

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used by various centers located elsewhere in California. By the end of this year, more than 2000 people will reside in Cinnamon centres in the United States. They consider themselves members of a communist. And I asked one of the region's Jack hurst if the group had gone

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way beyond the self help concept of treating drug addicts, which its founder chuck. Dederick had started years ago. Well chuck can sit on long ago discovered that there is no way you can take a kid and put him in a in a in a place cure

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him and put him back in the place that he came from. That that's patently absurd because part of the problem with with me was my whole society, It was my whole neighborhood, my whole family structure when I came to sin and I had to rebuild my

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life. All new city is really in the rehabilitation. That's a very good word has been misused but you have to start and build a whole new lifestyle based on honesty on truth and trying to get along with your fellow man and then not change that. You

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must continue that forevermore. Now we have and sit on some 1800 2000 people who have started this this journey. Um there isn't any going back to the way we were or where we come from in the sense of leaving synonym, it's a philosophy that I feel

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I must embrace for the rest of my life. 14 years ago I worked on the first news story ever reported on Sina then it was a group of maybe 12 or 15 very sad and unhappy people who were desperately looking for hope in a way to

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rehabilitate their lives. They lived in a dirty little storefront in the southern California beach town of venice. They've come a long way since then Rollin Post for eyewitness news san Francisco