I am the daughter of a violent drinker and an anxious mother

At age three I receive medical attention for the first time after my father’s violence, without my mother protecting me

At age six I am raped by my father and placed in a children’s home for a year

At age nine I am raped by my sixteen-year-old cousin and my mother brands me a liar and the traitor of the family

At age eleven I learn to smoke hash and feel good in the company of outsiders

At age eleven I am sent by my parents to a closed psychiatric unit, fight desperately against it and am given tranquilisers to keep me quiet

At age thirteen I survive my first suicide attempt, am disowned by my father and flee from the city together with a friend

At age thirteen the friend gives me my first shot of heroin and takes me with her to walk the streets

At age thirteen I am a drug addict, move in with my pimp and live in shame

At age fifteen I hope that my divorced mother will take me in and am rejected

At age sixteen I marry my pimp

At age seventeen I fall in love with a male drug addict, am happy, clean, and become a mother

At age nineteen I go back to heroin and prostitution

At age twenty-one I provide for my lover, who is in jail, and my son, by dealing

At age twenty-one I break off contact with my father

At age twenty-two I am diagnosed as having cirrhosis of the liver and I break off my first course of treatment

At age twenty-three my boyfriend is released and we escape to Germany because of my court case

At age twenty-three I am arrested, convicted, and given a long prison sentence

At age twenty-three my boyfriend leaves me

At age twenty-three I understand and forgive my mother’s betrayal

At age twenty-four I am depressed, deliberately harm myself, and seek help

I am the second child of my single, underage mother

At age six I am my stepfather’s scapegoat and he starts to abuse me

At age twelve an unsuccessful attempt is made by my brother to report the fact that I am being abused to the police

At age thirteen I fall in love with my boyfriend

At age thirteen I hang out with older kids, start smoking hash and drinking alcohol

At age fourteen I use cocaine and other drugs for the first time

At age fourteen I am admitted to hospital and given treatment for months because my kidneys

At age fourteen my boyfriend starts using drugs

At age sixteen my mother decides that my child must be aborted

At age seventeen my boyfriend kills himself with a pump-action gun

At age seventeen I lose my mother and my faith in life

After my boyfriend’s death I try to kill myself in any way I can find, and my grandmother suffers from my misery

At age seventeen I have myself put on morphine at the same as taking methadone illegally

At age eighteen I live in isolation and depression and spend the nights on my lover’s grave

At age nineteen I am diagnosed as having cirrhosis of the liver and given treatment

At age twenty I am committed to a psychiatric clinic and after two months I try to escape by making fresh suicide attempts

At age twenty I am convicted of a violent offence and given a prison sentence; I refuse the treatment imposed

At age twenty-one I leave forced treatment, am clean for four months and after a relapse have myself put on methadone

At age twenty-two I no longer resist getting into a new relationship with a man

At age twenty-four I am happy with the birth of our daughter, three days later I am put in prison and given psychiatric treatment

At age twenty-four my child has disappeared and I discover that the Child Protection Service has placed her with a foster-mother

At age twenty-seven I hope to put my past and my isolation behind me

I am the religious child of my beloved parents

At age three my father forces me to watch as he rapes my mother

At age five my mother’s lover starts sexually abusing me

At age eight my father abducts me and declares my mother dead

At age nine my father terrorizes me and my mother with sexual violence

At age ten my father orders me to punish him by inflicting physical harm on him and tries to kill us both

At age eleven my brother is born and my stepfather stops raping me

At age eleven I have to leave grammar school, suffer from anorexia and receive psychiatric treatment for hallucinations

At age thirteen I use speed, tranquillizers, alcohol and methadone

At age fourteen I discover my bisexuality

At age fourteen I lead an intense, restless life without knowing how I can prove myself

At age fifteen I run away from boarding school, communal residence projects and homes, and become a prostitute to get an endless supply of heroin

At age fifteen I look for, and find, a sense of belonging in the community of outsiders

At age fifteen my stepfather accuses me in court of seducing him and is released from jail early

At age sixteen, as a result of taking fewer drugs, I suffer from paranoia, psychosis and hallucinations

At age sixteen I am diagnosed as having cirrhosis of the liver

Since I was sixteen, my life has been saved several times by emergency admissions after polytoxicomanic drug use

At age seventeen my father has me forcibly committed to a youth psychiatric clinic

At age seventeen I am given my first prison sentence

Since I was seventeen, I have been given prison sentences for illegal prostitution, drug dealing, robbery and theft and dealing in stolen property

At age seventeen I rent some space to live in the villa of my uncle and his whores

At age twenty-two my poison relationship with the man I love comes to an end

At age twenty-three I am clean and have no idea what to do with my boundless energy

I am the grand-daughter of an alcoholic woman

At age six my mother and her boyfriend take me to Austria, to escape from the poverty in Poland

At age twelve my schoolteacher informs the Child Protection Service that my stepfather is abusing me

At age twelve I enjoy the kindness and attention of the counselors at the crisis center

At age thirteen I run away from home and seek the protection of a children’s home

At age fourteen my mother is not willing to leave my brother’s father for me

At age fourteen my mother regularly comes to visit me in the home and brings me sweets

At age fifteen I am an aggressive child, fight with my carers and refuse to adjust

At age fifteen I smoke marijuana and drink alcohol, together with other children in the home

At age sixteen I take XTC and speed, am transferred to a boarding school and adapt to the drug-use of the other girls who live there

At age sixteen I steal a dealer’s hash, copy his behaviour, feel proud of my power as a drug dealer and can afford to take unlimited quantities of heroin

At age seventeen I am given a prison sentence and my lover insists that I change my life

At age eighteen I wander the streets, seek out the company of other foreign addicts and use more and more drugs

At age eighteen I go to my mother for help, have myself admitted to a closed psychiatric clinic and am treated and put on inhibitors

At age eighteen I drop out of treatment and turn my aggression on my mother

At age eighteen I leave the commune

At age nineteen I am sent to prison and my girl-friend ends our relationship

At age nineteen I am afraid of being alone, get hold of a gun and throw my weight around in the drugs scene

At age nineteen I am sent to prison and accept treatment for the first time

At age twenty I am clean and get over being hurt about having been used as a scapegoat and being an outsider

At age twenty I pray to god for a life free from poison

My father is the only person who is pleased that I am born a girl

At the age of two I am surrounded by the god-fearing aunts of my father and of my mother who sleeps around

At the age of four I want to be a priest and don’t feel at home in the girls’ world

At the age of six I am ashamed of my father, who drinks and swears at my mother, calling her a tart and a whore

At the age of twelve I run away and stay with my aunt and live a normal life

At the age of fourteen I have to return home and am unable to concentrate at school

When I am fourteen my father is admitted to a clinic and I tell my mother it’s her fault

At the age of fifteen I hang around in the streets, pinch stuff, start drinking and take my aunts’ tranquillizers

At the age of sixteen I leave school and get a job. The court threatens to have me forcibly admitted to a reform school

At the age of seventeen I feel sorry for my sick father

When I am twenty my little sister, who I have been taking care of as my own child, dies of meningitis, aged eight months

When I am twenty my mother sinks into a deep depression and we are all devastated

At the age of twenty-two I am addicted to alcohol and my mother sends me to my aunt in Germany

At the age of twenty-three I try to keep my friends on the island away from drugs

At the age of twenty-five I fall in love with a boy from the drugs scene

At the age of twenty-five I share the feelings of loneliness and isolation in an exchange of letters with my boyfriend, who is in detention

When I am twenty-seven we both deal marijuana, we are convicted, and the prison system shocks me

At the age of twenty-nine I am released from prison, I use heroin and deal

At the age of thirty my life consists of heroin, depression, blaming, endless loneliness, chaos and a sense of solidarity with my boyfriend

When I am thirty-one we are sent to a drugs rehab commune in Spain and my mother threatens to report me to the police if I break off the treatment

At the age of thirty-one my psychological dependency on cocaine is stronger than the physical dependency on heroin

At the age of thirty-six I am treated for my hepatitis C while I am in prison

At the age of thirty-six I am in detention for the fourth time, expect to be convicted again, and am full of fear of life with and without drugs, of sickness, isolation and freedom

I am born because my mother is against abortion as a deadly sin

From the age of four my mother hits me violently whenever I ask about my father, who I know nothing about

From the age of nine I play basketball and my mother rewards me

At the age of eleven I defend myself from my mother’s sadistic abuse and humiliation of me

At the age of fourteen I lose any prospect of a career in sport

At the age of fourteen I leave school and am beaten by my sisters and my mother

At the age of fourteen I try to kill myself so that my mother will be rid of me

At the age of sixteen I drop out of my course and help Bosnian refugees in a UN refugee camp

At the age of sixteen I learn from UN peacekeepers to smoke dope and to use XTC and LSD

When I am sixteen my mother forbids me to marry a Muslim Arab

At the age of seventeen I have a job and I can afford to take speed, LSD, XTC, hash, marijuana and magic mushrooms at techno parties

At the age of nineteen I fall in love with the party dealer and we get into a symbiotic relationship

At the age of nineteen I am adopted by my mother-in-law as a much-loved daughter

At the age of nineteen I use heroin as a downer after consuming extreme quantities of cocaine, XTC and speed

At the age of twenty-two I am happy within our junkie relationship

At the age of twenty-two I am clean and happy with the birth of the first of our four children

From the age of twenty-three my husband takes care of the drugs and money and I make sure we have a nice home

When I am twenty-three my mother reports me to the police to get my children taken away from me

When I am twenty-three the police threatens to take my children away if I don’t confess to an offence

At the age of twenty-six I am relieved after my mother’s death and miss the continuation of our conflict

At the age of twenty-nine I am put in a coma while on remand so that I will survive withdrawal

At the age of thirty I take methadone while my husband is in detention and suffer from the unbearable separation of living apart from him

At the age of thirty-two I am sentenced to time in prison, I am clean, and I despair at being separated from my husband and my children

At the age of thirty-two I feel guilty about what my children are suffering

When I am born I am happy to be alive

When I am nine months old my uncle saves my life and loses his own life

When I am two years old, my alcoholic father regularly ill-treats my mother, who is constantly accusing

At the age of three my parents get divorced and I am tormented by my mother’s lover

When I am six, my father hits my mother so hard she ends up in hospital and I am glad that my parents are back together and that we move to the family’s countryside commune

When I am nine we move to the city and I hit the boys who tease me at school

At the age of ten I identify with the love-story of Christiane F

When I am eleven my drunken father says that I am to blame for my uncle’s death

At the age of twelve I drink and smoke dope

When I am thirteen, the boy I look up to rapes me

At the age of fourteen I am happy and doing well at school by using heroin

At the age of fifteen I am in love with a man who is eighteen years older and we each keep our drug addiction a secret from the other

When I am sixteen my parents report me to the police and forbid me to go on with the relationship

At the age of seventeen I am in a depression and deal heroin to provide for my own habit

At the age of nineteen my father reports me to the police and I am sent to prison

At the age of twenty-one I am released and start dealing drugs on a large scale

At the age of twenty-one I meet my husband and introduce him to the drugs scene

At the age of twenty-three I hope that the beneficial effects of the shaman plant Ibogaine will help me to have a child while being free from drugs

When I am twenty-five my daughter is born and my husband is imprisoned

From the time that I am twenty-five, my single father supports me in my drug dealing and I provide him with money to live on

When I am twenty-six my father claims part of the responsibility for my possession of drugs, as a result of which my sentence is reduced

At the age of twenty-seven I am clean and live from one day to the next

I am the little sister of my dead sister

When I am one year old my parents leave me behind with my grandmother, furious, in the Yugoslavian countryside

When I am five years old my parents come and take me to their Germany of migrant worker and leave me alone while I go through the lonely adjustment to the strange new place

When I am eleven my father is my confidant and our nostalgia is replaced by prosperity

At the age of fourteen I am not afraid of the use of cocaine among my circle of rich kids

At the age of sixteen I escape to follow a course in the city, far away from my parents’ supervision

At the age of eighteen I marry a Yugoslavian criminal and adapt to a traditional wife’s role

When I am nineteen my husband escapes from a German prison to Yugoslavia, he doesn’t like it there, and I get him to come to Switzerland

At the age of twenty I am living a life of bored luxury and every day I do some money-laundering for my husband’s drugs and arms trade

When I am twenty-five my husband terrorises me with violence and death threats and I start taking cocaine regularly

At the age of twenty-five I abort my unwanted child and try to kill myself

When I am twenty-six my parents come and take me home and have me locked up in a psychiatric institution and my father threatens my husband

When I am twenty-six my husband shoots his way into the institution and frees me, and I use his cocaine, alcohol, crack and heroin

When I am twenty-six I use my power as a wife to put pressure on another dealer and accept lovers with money and drugs

At the age of twenty-eight I lose my Swiss residence permit and deal Swiss drugs in Germany

At the age of twenty-nine I am sentenced to five years in prison in Germany and let myself be carted off to Croatia

While aged thirty and thirty-one I am clean, lead a normal life and am frightened

At the age of thirty-four I deal, and use endless quantities of heroin and cocaine

At the age of thirty-four, I follow my husband to our seaside house, am helpless in the fatalistic use of drugs and allow myself to be terrorised, raped and abused

At the age of thirty-seven I leave my husband and start a relationship with a young Croatian war invalid

At the age of forty I am serving my prison sentence, suffer from Hepatitis C, am clean and will sacrifice kicks for a happy family life

At birth, my heart stops beating

At age three, I frequently live away from my parents

At age eight, I suffer from racist behavior directed against my father and myself

At age ten, I get homeopathic treatment against sadness and world-weariness

At age twelve, I ask too much of my parents by being ill, and I drink excessive amounts of alcohol

At age thirteen, my parents may refuse to see that I drink alcohol

At age fourteen, I escape from intrusive men by maiming myself and making myself ugly

At age fifteen, I drift around, drink myself unconscious, and desire to flee from my surroundings in the company of my lover

At age seventeen, I suffer my life as a housewife with my boyfriend

At age nineteen, I complete my second course of training and function on alcohol

At age twenty, I enjoy my male job

At age twenty-two, I work, addicted to drugs, under the obsessive interference of my employer

At age twenty-four, I try to kill myself

At age twenty-four, I live for months without the solace of alcohol, need more drugs, and start hallucinating

At age twenty-four, I escape from being publicly exposed by my boss by going back to my parents and try to get help

At age twenty-five, I feel at home in the company of drug addicts

At age twenty-seven, I am a beloved dealer and am happy in my relationship with an addicted man

At age twenty-nine, I am busy day and night trying to organize drugs for my friend and myself

At thirty, I embezzle money from a friend and suffer from feelings of guilt and lack of drugs

At age thirty, I panic, rob a gas station, and get arrested

At age thirty, I enter prematurely into custody, am treated with methadone, and need fewer drugs

At thirty-one, I am for the first time in my life diagnosed on the causes and nature of my addiction

I am the unwanted child of my loveless mother

At age five, I suffer from my father’s violence, violence imposed by my mother

At age six, the school confirms my hyperactivity

At age seven, I suffer from loneliness and start drinking my parents’ alcohol

At age eight, my brother is sent to reform school

At age thirteen, I find comfort with friends and smoke hashish and marihuana with them, and take LSD

At age fifteen, a friend gives me my first shot of morphine

At age fifteen, my parents put me out in the street

At age sixteen, I shoot heroin and morphine

At age seventeen, I start school at the wish of my parents, and am expelled because of my drug addiction

At age nineteen, I also use cocaine, tranquilizers, and medicine

At age twenty-one, my mentally retarded son is born

At age twenty-two, I am detained and lose, through my parents’ intervention, the custody of my child

At age twenty-two, I am in love with a woman, use fewer drugs, and escape from prison

At age twenty-four, I fall back into polytoxicomaniacal drug abuse and deal hashish to finance my addiction

At age twenty-seven I use no drugs apart from methadone to get two wish-children

At age thirty-two, I relapse into drug abuse with my boyfriend and have my children placed in a foster home

At age thirty-eight, I live in fatal dependence of a man and of drugs

At age forty, I am homeless, and live in shelters or on the streets

At age forty-two, my boyfriend forces me into prostitution, and I stab him

At age forty-three, I break down and am committed to a psychiatric hospital

At age forty-four, I am taken into custody

At age forty-five, I fear dreams that announce my death

I am the daughter of working parents who have little time for their five children

At age nine, I have my first period and hide this fact during five years from my parents

At age fifteen, I am raped by a man who hits me and threatens me

At age fifteen, I do not suspect my pregnancy

At age sixteen, my unwanted child dies

At age seventeen, I use my mother’s tranquilizers

At age eighteen, I cut and burn my body and drink alcohol

At age nineteen, my suicide attempt fails

At age nineteen, I feel safe in the comfort of my shared life with my beloved wife

At age nineteen, I drink excessive amounts of alcohol

At age twenty-four, I am being asked too much by my wish-child

At age thirty-one, I divorce the father of my second child and am sober

At age thirty-six, I am independent, and secretly drink

At age forty, my boyfriend is dependent on drugs and on me

At age forty-one, my boyfriend rapes and abuses me every day

At age forty-one, I drink and my friend gives me cocaine without my knowing

At age forty-one, I am submitted to enforced psychiatric treatment after a nervous breakdown

At age forty-two, I snort heroine, drink continuously, and no longer defend myself against being raped and abused

At age forty-two, I am convicted for the illegal possession of guns, after my boyfriend has shot at me

At age forty-three, in a state of apathy and self-neglect, I allow my boyfriend to terrorize and blackmail me, use heroine and cocaine, and deal in drugs

At age forty-five, I live in agony, am arrested, convicted, and endure my punishment

I am the devoted child of my theomaniacal mother

At age eight, I am sexually abused by my father

At age nine, my father attempts to rape me

At age ten, I deliberately injure myself to blackmail my father

At age fifteen, I am raped by a stranger, busted by the police, and accused by my mother

At age fifteen, I anaesthetize myself with medicine

At age sixteen, I run away from home, live together with a man and get pregnant

At age seventeen, I am forced to marry the father of my child in order not to be expelled from my mother’s church

At age eighteen, my husband begins to abuse me

At age eighteen, I shoot heroine, work while addicted, and look after my beloved child

At age twenty, I leave my husband, live with my parents, and work professionally as a dealer

At age twenty-four, I manage a restaurant with my HIV-positive lover and take care of him until his death

At age thirty-one, I love a drug-addicted woman and live happily

At age thirty-seven, I contact my father in order to forgive him

At age thirty-eight, I fear life, alone

At age thirty-nine, I am being observed by the police, and am charged for openly dealing in heroine

At age forty, I am arrested and sentenced to four years imprisonment

At age forty, I submit to legally imposed treatment and confess my addiction to my son

At age forty-two, I am clean, depressed, and cannot endure life in sobriety

At age forty-two, I fall in love with a former drug addict, experience unprecedented understanding, and no longer defend myself through verbal violence

At age forty-three, I break of treatment, and fall back into polytoxicomaniacal drug abuse

At age forty-six, I am treated a full year for advanced liver cirrhosis

At age forty-seven, I live in prison

I am my mother’s whipping boy, and an unruly, depressed child

At age six, my aunt and uncle wish to adopt me

At age seven, I am not yet toilet trained

At age seven, I am raped and beaten at the hospital by the doctor who is treating me

At age thirteen, I run away from home for the first time

At age fifteen, I start drinking alcohol

At age sixteen, my relationship ends, and I try to shoot myself

At age twenty-two, I wander on the streets and go home in order to drink

At age twenty-nine, I marry my beloved

At age thirty-seven, I wander on the streets, shut up into myself

At age thirty-eight, I want to drown in the sea

At age thirty-nine, I break with my family and my husband

At age thirty-nine, I deny my addiction, resist treatment, and escape confinement in anxious-psychotic condition

At age forty, I wander on the streets, depressed, neglected, furious, and ashamed, and drink myself into a stupor

At age forty-one, they keep me asleep for a year

At age forty-four, I for the first time stick out psychiatric treatment, am being sent away, and end up wandering on the streets and drinking

At age forty-seven, I live under the protection of a drug rehabilitation program, can for the first time feel myself, and commit myself to a man

At age forty-seven, I am committed to a psychiatric hospital to be treated for depression and grow rigid, motionless, with fear

At age forty-seven, my beloved leaves me

At age forty-eight, I live in gloom, without any defense

At age forty-eight, my demented dad, my ally, dies

At age forty-eight I am declared mentally fit, Addicts Care Services arrange admission to psychiatric ward, then I’m chucked out without any explanation and find myself on the street.

I am born short of breath and a depressed child

At age ten, I am being treated with tranquilizers

At age twelve, my sister and me are using pot, mushrooms, and LSD

At age sixteen, my sister and I start shooting heroin

At age eighteen, I am psychotic for the first time

At age nineteen, I marry a doctor and live as a middle-class housewife and a junkie

At age nineteen, I am for the first time forced to submit to psychiatric treatment for psychosis, depressive disorder, addiction, and hysteria

At age twenty-seven, my sister dies of a heroin overdose

At age twenty-seven, I start drinking excessive amounts of alcohol

At age twenty-eight, I adopt my sister’s heroin baby as my beloved child

At age twenty-eight, I train as a educationalist, and work with children while on drugs

At age twenty-nine, I am pregnant and stop using heroin

At age twenty-nine, I am hospitalized for nine months, speechless and apathetic, and being treated for postnatal depression

At age thirty-four, I use cocaine and wander on the streets, bored and anxious

At age thirty-six, my husband dies

At age forty, I am beaten up and raped by a junkie who tries to force me into prostitution

At age forty-two, my boyfriend is for the first time found guilty of abusing me and detained

At age forty-seven, I enjoy wandering on the streets and using drugs with my boyfriend

At age fifty, my alcoholic father dies

At age fifty, I am clean for the second time in my life, and tired of life

Being the first-born, I look after my mother

At age fifteen, I start going out and fall maniacally in love with men

At age sixteen, I start smoking pot, and escape from my mother’s terrorizing reign

At age seventeen, I run away from home

At age eighteen, I am raped by a man while drunk

At age nineteen, I can no longer have children

At age twenty, I experiment with heroin, cocaine, and spirituality

At age twenty-one, I use mushrooms, LSD, pot, and tranquilizers, and enjoy my hallucinations

At age twenty-five, I violently break off my connections with my husband and the outside world

At age twenty-six, my sister has become a heroin addict

At age twenty-seven, I am clean and alone

At age thirty, I comfort myself with homegrown cannabis and lock myself into a closet for months at the time

At age thirty-two, I am addicted and psychotic without treatment

At age thirty-nine, I go into rehab, build a ship, and survive on the thought of love

At age forty, I work as a caregiver in a rehab program

At age forty-three, I fall back on the use of homegrown cannabis as a substitute for love

At age fifty-one, I am compulsively in love and psychotic

At age fifty-one, I attack my mother

At age fifty-one, I am sober

I am born prematurely and survive my disability

At age two, I am taken out of the hospital and brought home

As a young child, I am being treated as a deformed child by my parents and punished at school for lagging behind in my development

At age eight, I start drinking my alcoholic father’s booze

At age seventeen, I fall in love with a compulsive gambler

At age eighteen, I drink excessive amounts of alcohol

At age eighteen, I begin systematically to seduce men and take them home

At age twenty, I am committed to a hospital to be treated for my defect

At age twenty-two, I am being abused by my intoxicated husband

At age twenty-three, I suffer from pains and am hospitalized

At age twenty-five, I am being treated like an inferior child by my husband and neglect myself

At age twenty-six, I decide to destroy myself

At age twenty-seven, I am depressed

At age twenty-eight, I cannot remember that I may have been raped while drunk

At age twenty-eight, I am chased out of the house by my husband and my parents

At age twenty-eight, my cousin’s drug addiction is kept secret within the family

At age twenty-eight, I flee Friesland, go into rehab, and live under the protection of the rehab program

At age thirty, I am depressed and committed to a psychiatric hospital in a state of shock

At age six, I am afraid of my addict parents

At age twelve, my father dies

At age thirteen, I take my mother’s medicine and cannabis

At age sixteen, my brother dies

At age seventeen, I start shooting heroin

At age eighteen, my mother dies of an overdose

At age nineteen, I am living in france, homeless

At age twenty-five, I am jailed for the first time

At age thirty, I contract hiv in jail

At age thirty-one, I escape to the Netherlands to avoid being imprisoned again

At age thirty-two, I fall in love with a junkie and live with him illegally in Rotterdam

At age forty, I return to Germany for rehab, am treated with methadone, and start drinking

At age forty-one, I am committed to a psychiatric institution

At age forty-one, I hear that my lover has been shot dead

At age forty-two, I am admitted to a shelter for junkies with advanced cirrhosis of the liver

At age forty-four, I die while under the supervision of carers

As an infant maybe as a small child, I might be being abused

At age three, I am for the first time being treated by a therapist

At age six, the police brings me home for the first time

At age nine, I start being sexually abused

At age ten, I start drinking

At age twelve, I play truant a lot, and stay away from home nights on end

At age fourteen, I am sent to a home

At age sixteen, I shoot heroin

At age eighteen, I am taken into custody

At age twenty-four, I enter therapy

At age twenty-five, I quit therapy and go back on heroin