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If you’re lucky, they recover. If you’re really lucky, you recover, too.

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Every single moment until you were face to face with what would change not only your life but so many others will replay back in your head, and you will fight the inevitable guilt of being imperfect, and not being enough to stop things before they spun too far out of control.

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Being an addict doesn’t make a person any less of a person, any less of a beautiful beating heart in need of love.

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I don’t think I could ever say I’m sorry enough times for not saving you when you needed it most.

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We need to tell today’s youth they can survive this, they are not lost, if ever they stumble down a rocky road.

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Addiction is a disease, a cold-hearted monster who ruins lives and families and beautiful people every single day and literally gives zero fucks.

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I began devising a plan.

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“Truth.” That’s a very relative term when drugs are involved.

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You can spend your nights trying to understand addiction, and how somebody can transform into a person so horrific right before your own eyes, but there is no understanding to it.

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Do you like to go out and party? Do you like to drink socially, maybe smoke a little bit of weed now and then? Well, that will never happen again if you start in on the hard stuff.