Rolling Away

My Agony with Ecstasy

By: Lynn Marie Smith

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Paperback | 27 June 2006

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This all started as a choice, my choice, but now I was slave to it.
Every time I swallowed a pill I was tricking myself into seeing and feeling what was not there. But I could only trick myself for so long....

Lynn Smith never wanted to be an addict. A popular straight-A student from small-town Pennsylvania, she moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting. In the city, she came in contact with new people, new ideas, and a completely new way of life -- a way that exposed her to drugs. She tried pot, acid, and cocaine, but it was the "love drug" Ecstasy that won her heart. Rolling Away is the story of Lynn's frenzied flight into addiction and her long struggle to come back down to earth. At once harrowing and inspiring, Rolling Away is a triumphant narrative about sex, drugs, and rock-bottom survival -- and how a second chance can save your life.

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""Rolling Away" is sensitive and bold....it speaks to anyone who ever wanted to pop that pill (or did) and got bound up in that toxic love affair. Bravo to Lynn Smith for getting out of it and channeling her fears and passions into thoughtful and revelatory prose."

-- Jenny Lauren, author of "Homesick"

"I wish that all aspiring party girls would read "Rolling Away, " Lynn Marie Smith's cautionary tale, to understand how damaging and empty drug abuse really is."

-- Lizzie Simon, author of "Detour"

"Lynn Marie Smith has written a gripping narrative that is both intensely personal and yet also very informative. From beginning to end, Lynn's brave and unflinching examination of herself, her actions, and the mistakes that led her from a straight-A cheerleader at school to a crazed, half-dead drug addict shows us the kind of determination and fight it took for this young woman to stay clean. In the end, the hardness of her drug tale is lifted by her honesty and spunk, and love of family, friends, and life."

-- Loung Ung, author of "Lucky Child"

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Introduction: Am I Dead?	p. 1
thE drop
No Place Like Home	p. 9
Gee, I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here...	p. 13
It Was Because of Chuck Taylor	p. 21
Uncovering Ecstacy	p. 25
Academy 101	p. 34
Lust for Life	p. 37
What Trip?	p. 44
A Second Chance	p. 52
thE rush
On the Verge	p. 57
Waiting	p. 64
On the Rocks	p. 68
Ruin	p. 71
thE roll
No Swearing	p. 77
Feelin' It	p. 84
Stop, Drop, and Roll	p. 89
After Hours	p. 92
Pretty Poison	p. 95
Creep	p. 97
Rolling Away	p. 101
Two for Jump	p. 104
Just Say Yes	p. 108
thE crash
You're Next	p. 115
The Breakthrough	p. 118
Better Off Alone	p. 122
It's Not Christmas	p. 126
The Marlboro Man	p. 134
Visiting Hours	p. 140
Believing in Tyler Durden	p. 146
Walking on Sunshine	p. 154
Gram Witmer	p. 160
The Homecoming	p. 165
"House for Sale, Dad Gone..."	p. 174
Hello, Operator?	p. 182
Tomorrow, Tomorrow	p. 189
Fun, Food, and Fantasy	p. 193
Walking Through a Spiderweb	p. 198
The Truth Sucks	p. 202
Memories	p. 206
Naked Blue	p. 212
Tick Tock	p. 218
Big Brass Bed	p. 223
Take Two, and Call Me...	p. 229
I Used To...	p. 234
Snow Falling	p. 235
Talking to the Dead	p. 237
Sticking Together	p. 246
Coming clEan
Ashes	p. 253
Put on a Little Makeup	p. 256
A Phone Call	p. 258
Hi, My Name Is...	p. 261
Are You Ready?	p. 267
Welcome Home	p. 271
aftErword	p. 275
rEsources	p. 279
Acknowledgments	p. 283
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