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"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
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"There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief."

"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics."

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