Near-discharge #1: the methadone-clinic CLOSED-sign prank

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texture · early residency, ~YDPAH

When: "the very early part of his Ennet House residency"
What: New-and-cynical Gately teamed with a bad-news methedrine addict from New Bedford, snuck out after curfew, and hung a "CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE BY ORDER COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS" sign on Unit #2's methadone clinic, causing a near-riot among the dawn junkies; the dropped House Manager's binoculars dented Calvin Thrust's 'Vette. Gately got Full-House Restriction and nearly the boot. The New Bedford addict later picked up, was discharged, and died at Framingham Women's — which counselor Gene M. framed for Gately as "There But For the Grace of God Goeth D. W. Gately."