I wanted to do something that would make me memorable and stand out.

For the love of God, I cannot tell you why I did.

I chose to do a cartwheel.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

But I, wait, it gets so much better.

Oh.

So we're standing in the lobby of this office building in New York City, and these,

these women come off this elevator, and these are the ones that were there to meet.

And, you know, I just like, by the way, I'd never done a cartwood before mine.

Oh, my God.

You know, not wired for that, you know.

And I'm like, hey, check this out.

It's just, it's embarrassing.

Of all the things I write about in my book, all the low, low, low drug bottom stuff, this

cartwheel is like hands down the one thing that I'm most embarrassed about.

And so I do this car wheel. I come crashing down on my back on the marble floor of this office

building and I injure my back to the degree that I ultimately had to have surgery on. Jesus.

Yes.

And in that process, I was introduced to, like, what was for many years, in my estimation, the great love of my life, opiates.

That was Dan Paris, and this is the Share Podcast.

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