Go Ask Alice Part 1 with Carmen Maria Machado
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Does Ecstasy Come in Barrels?
When i was in high school, i wrote a short story that i submitted to our literary magazine anonymously. And there was a detail in the story which i have never forgotten and i truly do not know where i got it from. She goes to the party and remembers seeing barrels of ecstasy, amnut of measurementlike, away. This is actually another reason that i do think that this book was more influential on me than i remembered. Now, my fear of drugs is like a concept that has existed for most of my life, even into now,. Like, i think, came from this, this book, which is sort of horrifying to imagine.
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