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I still remember telling my mother, the woman who thought her little girl was an angel, that I was a drug addict and needed to go to inpatient treatment. “I don’t want to get high anymore,” I told her, “but I can’t stop.”

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The way you find the good and beauty in things that are so small and simple literally make my heart happy.

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Your favorite phrases are, “I don’t care” and “It’s not a big deal.”

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The next step in the cycle is always relapse, and it always brings comfort and ends all pain. How do you quit something that seems to make everything better?

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The world has forgotten about you, left you in disgrace, and is off to destroy its next victim.

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“Also must remember not to mouth along the words to all my favorite parts, lest I look like a crazy person.”