Usually, the drug of choice for African-Americans is cocaine, ... I’ve battled with it even though I had a great business and I thought I could use cocaine frequently and it wouldn’t cause me trouble, I was very wrong.

Both black and white children are using drugs of choice. We are concerned and we hope we can make a difference by them hearing our stories, ... To the average person, my life seemed successful, but when they look past the appearance of education , skill, business deals and church service, I’m a man with a disease of addiction. I don’t want black or white children having to deal with what we’ve had to deal with. Somehow we’ve got to get across to them.

Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Americans' freedom of choice includes the freedom to overeat.

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