The Kind Man Who Used to Sell Me Heroin

Over the years I bought from him, I picked up pieces of his story. He’d grown up in a rough neighborhood and gone to jail numerous times on drug-related charges. At one point he’d been in college and studied psychology, but his drug use had gotten him kicked out, so he started selling drugs to support himself.

BY M.L. LANZILLOTTA FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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