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How to Slay Your Dragons

“The truth is, I have worked hard to not dislike myself so much, but I still worry, sometimes in an acute, frightened, little-kid way, about being too weird and maybe even scary.”

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What It’s Like to Go to Rehab

The first day of the rest of your life.

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Character Witness

by Jason Brown

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Cold Blooded Old Times

“Once you’ve stopped anesthetizing yourself from reality you’re immediately forced to become present or die trying.”

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Heroin Is More Powerful Than the Love We Share

Another first-person essay on what it’s like to love an addict.

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We’ll Make Great Pets

“In a wine-drunk fugue state, I’d sent half a dozen emails to a Korean woman I’d never met, demanding that she PayPal me 500 American dollars, or else I would give the cat away.”