Hare's stepmom; Cassidy Arkin's mother; still in the house, well guarded
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Sandy Jonathan Hare is Jonathan's stepmom and Cassidy Arkin's mother, and she was in the room — sitting right there, which made it awkward for everyone — for Milton's entire announcement, recorded in the episode this page anchors. She still lives in the house, guarded by Harold, who is very big. The record holds her in the two factual sentences the family judged right, and her own account is invited on her own terms.
S-094 completes her arrival in the record: Sandra Rodgers-Hare — Sandy Rogers when Milton met her at Synanon in Marin County — already had her daughter Cassie when the cult mandated that children be surrendered to a communal hatchery. They refused, and left together, around 1983–84. The two factual sentences of the burning-bush evening now have their prehistory: a mother who walked out of a cult rather than give up her daughter. The chapter.
Her full name is Sandra Rogers-Hare, and the Synanon chapter is hers on the public record: co-author of the CBS News pieces and, with Cassidy, the voice of Born in Synanon (Paramount+, 2023) — from meeting Ed Arkin in The Game, through the Hatchery years, to leaving with Milton for San Leandro around 1981 (S-109).
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Selma, 1965 — and the promise
Open →mother ofProducer — and the reason Hare was in those rooms at all
Open →the house guarded byJonathan's brother; present for the announcement; the record quotes the warning verbatim because it enjoys it
Open →walked out of, with CassieThe Marin commune turned dangerous cult: the rattlesnake in the attorney's mailbox, the Point Reyes Light's Pulitzer, and the hatchery mandate that broke the family loose
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The account this page was distilled from, preserved as dictated.
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Read the source →Primary source · S-109The account this page was distilled from, preserved as dictated.
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