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8 Years Ago: Birthday Dog, Spiritual High from the Junkie Journals.

October 10, 2020by poppyshell81 2 Comments

I woke abruptly and my first thought was that it was Charlie’s thirteenth birthday. I immediately felt brighter than the last few weeks which had all been a shade of […]

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11 Years Ago: Sex Work Secrets of Gypsy Me. Navigating trauma in all the wrong ways.

October 1, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

These photos are from exactly 11 years ago, I was unsettled and moving about lots, staying at friends houses and in holiday cottages, desperately trying to find somewhere to settle […]

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4 Years Ago: Overdose, Shame and the Blame Game

August 22, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

The photo’s above are all taken during my time with Marcel, I’m not sure if our life was the life that people expect heroin addicts to have. I suppose the […]

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4 Years Ago: Why Did You Die? Guilt, Regret and Sadness.

August 21, 2020by poppyshell81 1 Comment

I’m not sure what I’m doing with this blog post, I want to just avoid the horrible thoughts that this date brings, I want to pretend I don’t feel a […]

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Photo Memories: Before Heroin, Before Loss.

July 16, 2020by poppyshell81 Leave a comment

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6 Years Ago: Death, Deviance and Sexual Therapy

July 5, 2020by poppyshell81 5 Comments

Reading through my journals this morning in preparation for this post I was once again surprised by the details they record, and it reminded me of how chaotic and bizarre […]

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Ten Years Ago: Abortion, Shame & Manic Me.

June 15, 2020by poppyshell81 3 Comments

This year you are allowed to feel whatever you feel, and I did. June 11th will always be significant, as significant as any birth or death. It’ll always be the day I choose to end two lives, the day that nearly ended my life too.

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Ten Years Ago Today

June 10, 2020by poppyshell81 4 Comments

I’ve been reviewing my journals which cover the last twenty years of life, I’m doing so as currently writing up a memoir about my experiences with drugs and addiction, and […]

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