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Student Laments Drug Addicted Parents

“I have a lot of people I care about, and they are victims of drug abuse. But it just makes me stronger. It’s actually both of my parents who are addicted to drugs. It started around a decade ago. I am not sure exactly how it happened… but drugs are just a way of avoiding […]

Author and Advocate for Autism Awareness

Gregory Andrus / October 3, 2017

I was in an MFA program for poetry in Colorado. I was the only student from New Jersey. Everyone else was from Colorado and that region. The students there would share with me very hurtful, very negative impressions of what they thought New Jersey was like. One person said to me, ‘Is everyone from New

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