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All Kings, a Retreat for Men, Tackles Masculine Rage, Sadness and Trauma - The New York Times

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After a weekend camping in the woods, a small group of guys — many of them former prisoners — hoped to leave healed. After a weekend camping in the woods, a small group of guys — many of them former prisoners — hoped to leave healed. Over the course of a few days, a dozen men bared their souls. Credit... Supported by By Joseph Bernstein Photographs by Kadar R. Small Reporting from Swan Lake, N.Y. On a cloudy afternoon in May, a dozen strangers descended a tree-lined hill in the Catskills, one by one. They were nervous. They had just relinquished their phones, and the only sound they could hear was the distant beat of a drum. They had little in common, at least on the surface. Among them was a wealth manager from Connecticut, a teenager from the Bronx trying to stay out of a gang, a painter from brownstone Brooklyn, a Haitian immigrant living in Queens and a community worker from St. Louis. They were Black, white and Asian, gay, bisexual and straight, middle-aged and young. Some had ser

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