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the lore, not from Pat

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it’s mostly like Ennet House mythology, with some hard facts from Gene M. and Calvin Thrust, both of whom think Pat M. just about hung the moon.

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The institution's oral tradition named as such: the House's founding lore is "Ennet House mythology," carried by residents like Gene M. and Calvin Thrust who revere Pat Montesian, not handed down by Pat herself. The recovery-house history as a living folk-canon, the reverence for the founder built into how the story gets told.

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