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the fact that it impacted your life sucks. i'm a young buck, and i've already been to too many funerals. but drugs are also a fact of life. i recently read 'deep in a dream,' chet baker's biography. that man lived thru heroin addiction for 30-years+, fucked people over time and time again, hocked his trumpet for drugs, was one of the biggest bastards around, and still made some of the sweetest, most moving music ever.
no one has the right to judge another. the only lesson i've learned so far in life is that we're all sorry sad bastards. my condolences for you and your friends' pain. i just don't think its the fault of drugs...its the fault of living in a faulty society...i pray that jennings and his survivors, friends, and family can find some peace.