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i was going to come back for him. it wasn t supposed to end like that. survivor guilt can be a poison in itself. you tried to kill yourself basically. oh, for sure. i was very, very self-destruct what did you do? drugs the first. what kind? cocaine. cocaine. in the 80s. started snorting it by a party drug. by five years later? smoked out pretty much. in sacramento, california, in the mid- 80s leslie was arrested trying to cash a stolen check. actually saved my life. getting caught? yes. getting sent to prison? yes. how much time did you serve? only did five months. but it was enough time to clean you up? oh, for sure, for sure. even as she straightened out her life, for years leslie wilson would not tell others she was a jonestown survivor. so i just lived underground. ....
Don t even see how i walked around much less worked a full-time job. it was so painful for me to be conscious i just really i drank myself to unconsciousness every day. in 1982, gosney moved to the island of maui in hawaii with another commune that collapsed. when he lost one job, he applied for another with the maui police department. i didn t tell them that i was a chronic alcoholic. i didn t tell them that i was a jonestown survivor. i didn t tell them that i was hiv positive. i didn t tell them that i had a drug history. after a couple of years as a cop, he hit rock bottom. finally, he stopped drinking, stopped using drugs and kept his job. i ve been clean and sober for 19 years now, over 19 years. life has not been easy. ....
as a young mother leslie wilson went to guyana because her husband had taken their son there. in jonestown, she found not enough food, not enough sleep, too much fear. for me to think i was going to see the age of 21 was a miracle. i didn t think i was going to see 21. she recoiled the first time jim jones called together peoples temple members for a suicide drill. and i remember him looking at me and me looking, please, don t ask me to do this because we really didn t know if it was real or not. on the last morning she said she wanted to take her child on a picnic and started on a day-long trek to a town 30 miles away. everyone can look up and see us walking, and i was just shaking. i was so, so frightened. for years, leslie wilson would not let anyone know she was a jonestown survivor. because i would sit at the ....