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spinbaby

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Sun Apr 24, 2016, 07:42 PM Apr 2016

I went out for a walk tonight

Strolled down our road just as the sun was beginning to go low. Western Pennsylvania countryside is really some of the prettiest scenery in the world and it's a beautiful cool, clear evening. A wash of green is just beginning to hit the trees and the roadside weeds are growing up to obscure the trash. Mostly beer cans, but also juice boxes, burger wrappers, cigarette butts, liquor bottles, and diapers. The favorite beer brand seems to be Miller Lite. I spy a blister pack, the kind the sell pills in, and turn it over with my toe to read "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE" in large yellow letters. I'm reminded that I live in the opiate overdose capital of the world.

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I went out for a walk tonight (Original Post) spinbaby Apr 2016 OP
And here I thought I did... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2016 #1

Rhiannon12866

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1. And here I thought I did...
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 01:47 AM
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I was giving a friend a ride home one day when she picked up something in the grass next to the parking lot. It looked like a broken ballpoint pen to me, but she told me it was a homemade crack pipe...

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