go thank alice
i credit this book with keeping me off drugs. i must have been in 5th grade when i read about alice and all the shit she went through (PUT herself through). after that i was scared straight. off hard drugs. i don’t count natural herbs. i guess with all this ‘precious’ movie hulabaloo and thinking about how sapphire’s book, push, changed my life … i thought also about alice. i used to read it over and over for a few years. it’s kinda grimy. and i was fascinated at 11 about how choices made as a teenager can change your entire life. i loved alice. i felt her pain. and i vowed to never be her. so far so good so i am thankful that an anonymous person wrote her story. i still love alice. maybe more so cuz she saved me from a life of drug addiction and homelessness. in two years i will share this book with my daughter. i’m also going to do a blog on push one day i guess … but that’s another day.
have you gone and asked alice yet?
