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The Straight Lexicon

Words you will hear in group, at your host home, and at Open Meeting, with how each one was used in Straight: A Life in Circles. Learn them. You will be using them.

Newcomer copyJune 1989Fictional propNot a real program document

they wrote it like a dictionary so it would sound like the truth

Definitions describe how each word is used in the novel. Quotes are from Straight: A Life in Circles by Obie Arthur. “Program” words belong to Straight. “Outside” words came from Brookline and BHS.

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