When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.

Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.

But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."