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How A Bad Trip at 16 Changed the Course of My Life

How A Bad Trip at 16 Changed the Course of My Life

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Chelsey Flood
Oct 21, 2020
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I took acid so you don't have to.

My older brother had been taking acid for years by the time I tried it. I wanted to be just like him — fearless, skeptical, brave — and to the greatest extent possible, I pretended that I was. I couldn’t pursue skating or BMXing — girls didn’t do those things in the Midlands in the 90s — so I went straight for the drugs.…

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