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Let's give you Brucem.

I love my mind tonight.

Sharp, like a tack.

Well, what it used to be like for me was I started drinking when I was about 14 years

old, and got into using speed around this time.

I was my big thing growing up as I was in the sports, and I was rather slow of foot, and

so these guys I used to hang out with said, if you take this stuff, guarantee you'll

gain a step in a half to two steps on running, and I said, this is what I need, you

know.

So I used to drink, take speed, or it started off as no dose, and I didn't take like one

or two, it was handfuls, and drink beer, and it's like the first time I went out and

had a good, so-called good time, I got really shit-faced, and that's a good way to put

it.

And it's like, that's how I drank.

My whole drinking pattern was basically that way, I drank hard, I drank heavy, I drank

to get drunk.

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