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Get in, hold on, and shut up!
This wonderful baby-boomer-gone-wild autobiography captures the essence of 1960s America and beyond. I followed the karma of Marc DuQuette in one sitting, hanging on as he careened wildly from one adventure to the next, making me laugh and breaking my heart. It's worth the read simply to get inside the head of a man who will think to himself, upon being thrown to the ground by police, "What's the karma with my nose and the street?" I loved this book.
Melissa B. Latimer,
Riverside, CA
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For most of 1968 he lived in the woods of Southern Oregon and subsequently became involved in various radical groups such as Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Cuban based Venceremos Brigade, and the Maoist October League/Communist Party Marxist-Leninist, from which he was ultimately expelled for being drunk at an International Womens Day rally in San Francisco. In order to make a living to support his “lifestyle” he worked at various factory jobs and pretended to organize the workers.
In 1979 and 1980, Marc picked up two DUIs and refused to attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings at the court’s request. As a result, he was sentenced to Orange County Main Jail.
On December 19, 1981 Marc hit rock bottom. He had a spiritual experience and called the Central Office of a Twelve Step Program. He attended his first meeting over 27 years ago and started working the Twelve Steps. He has maintained continuous sobriety and still attends meetings and works the steps to this day.
After becoming sober, Marc dedicated his life to helping others overcome their addictions. In 1983, he started volunteering five hours a week at the Orange County Health Care Agency – Alcoholism Services, and ultimately quit his factory job (and pretense of organizing workers) to take a two year Certification Program at the University of California, Irvine. He completed a supervised internship at the Orange Country Health Care Agency: Alcoholism, Mental Health and Drug Abuse. He has worked detox and recovery - medical model and social model - and facilitated groups as well as supervised felony drug diversion programs.
Marc continues to work with alcoholics/addicts and codependents, who also must actively attend and participate in the twelve step programs "appropriate to their needs." He does private consultations only with clients who are personally referred.
ORANGE SUNSHINE: How I Almost Survived America’s Cultural Revolution, is Marc’s first book and chronicles his experiences through the turbulent sixties, through his addictions and brushes with the law, and ultimately to his spiritual awakening and sense of purpose. He currently lives in Laguna Beach, California, and frequently travels to India to recharge his spiritual batteries.
Marc DuQuette was born in 1942 in Long Beach, California where he and his younger brother, author Lon Milo DuQuette were raised until they moved to Nebraska. Marc graduated from Columbus High School in Columbus, Nebraska in 1960. He served in U.S. Army Infantry, Army Reserve, and Nebraska National Guard and received an Honorable Discharge in December 1967.
During the 1960’s and 1970’s, he pushed life to the limits as an alcoholic outlaw biker in Costa Mesa, California, an acid-dropping, commune living hippie, and a communist political radical.
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