Sick: A riveting memoir about drug dealing, addiction, and surviving abuse.: Volume 1 - Softcover

Smith, Jen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477466274 ISBN 13: 9781477466278

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Book by Smith Jen

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Behind the suburban mom... Behind the successful businesswoman... Is a dark past you would never suspect. Today, Jen Smith is a typical single mom in the ‘burbs, racing to pick up her son from basketball practice, preparing for Cub Scouts and volunteering at the school’s ice cream social. But fifteen years ago her life was a very different story. With the income earned from her small time pot growing business, Jen spent her twenties happily following the Grateful Dead around the country with her beloved dog, JJ and a lively community of deadhead friends. Then she met Greg, whose charisma and swagger eclipsed his prison record. The two quickly developed both a whirlwind romance and a thriving drug operation. Savvy and unsuspecting, Greg and Jen became major operators with connections to powerful Mexicans, moving thousands of pounds of marijuana across the country and amassing over a million dollars in a few years. Theirs was a high-risk, high stakes lifestyle and a daily adrenalin rush. Their wealth afforded them exciting, extravagant luxuries, like lavish vacations to Hawaii, Costa Rica and Jamaica. But there was a darker side as well as the two fell deeper and deeper into ravaging cocaine, meth and alcohol addiction, and as Greg became increasingly unstable and violent. When Jen gets pregnant and has a healthy baby boy, she knows she can’t continue on this dangerous and soul-crushing path. But knowing that and getting out are two different things. Especially when your crack-addicted boyfriend routinely points a loaded gun at your head. Riveting and fast-paced, SICK follows Jen’s harrowing descent into addiction and domestic violence and lifts the curtain to reveal a twisted world few of us could imagine. But SICK is ultimately a story of survival and resilience, of what happens when one woman says, enough and fights to change her life, for her sake and her son’s...before it’s too late.

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Small time drug deals, following the Grateful Dead, and a passion for growing pot filled Jen’s world before she met Greg. But the first time she got off a flight, strolled over to the baggage claim in her carefully chosen new outfit and picked up two brand new flowered suitcases filled with eighty pounds of Mexican swag pot, she felt like she had found her true calling in life. The adrenaline rush of getting away with something big along with the money Jen would make was a new kind of high she’d never before experienced. She was instantly addicted. Making money organizing drug runs around the country was intense. Greg and Jen were a money making duo like none other. Life with Greg was exciting for a while but it wasn’t long before it became a cat and mouse game – then a complete nightmare. Jen’s not sure at what moment she stepped through the denial that allowed her to think she could continue living this life and her baby would be okay. Perhaps the morning she opened the computer room door to find Greg smoking crack while playing with a semi automatic Uzi, or maybe it was a few days later when she was fixing the bullet holes in the roof. Could there be a way out? Will Jen find a way to spare her son from this drug infested violent existence that would surely crush his soul?

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1477466274
• ISBN 13: 9781477466278
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218