Long Past Stopping

by Oran Canfield

  Without my agents Loretta Barrett and Nick Mollendor at LBB, I wouldn’t be thanking anyone, and I am extremely grateful to them for taking on this project.

  Writing a memoir wasn’t exactly the easiest thing I have ever done, but it was a lot easier knowing I had the love and support of my parents.

  Countless others helped me through various stages of this process, whether to listen to me moan or to offer me their feedback, but of special note are J. C. Morrison, Josh Korda, Inga Canfield, Luke Calzonetti, and Tim Dahl.

  Finally, I want to thank all the people who made appearances in this book, and those I was unable to include. It goes without saying (but I’m going to say it anyway) that this would have been a very different story without all of you.

  About the Author

  Oran Canfield was raised in Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Central America, New Mexico, Arizona, and the San Francisco Bay area. While attending the San Francisco Art Institute, Oran began his career as a drummer and became heavily involved in San Francisco’s flourishing underground music and art communities. Along with his involvement as a drummer for numerous bands in the nineties, he also owned and operated a recording studio and cooperated a music venue featuring experimental and creative jazz music. He has also been a bike messenger, piano restorer, housecleaner, limo driver, and sex-toy maker. Early in 2001, after seven separate stints in rehab, he got clean after attending an experimental treatment center in the Caribbean islands. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a musician and freelance art handler.

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  Copyright

  LONG PAST STOPPING. Copyright © 2009 by Oran Canfield. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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