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Crooked Smile What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime

Jared Klickstein

Featured In the "Darkly humorous" is an understatement when it comes to this poignant tale of addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and eventually, redemption. Jared Klickstein, the child of two heroin addicts who eventually became addicted himself, takes readers on a raw and personal journey fro...

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

It was described as a very good story, detailing his personal struggles with addiction and the white prisoner's dilemma, while also incorporating humour into a challenging topic.

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Buy his book - it's a very good story!!

— Episode: Ep 512 - White Prisoner's Dilemma (feat....

Episode: Ep 512 - White Prisoner's Dilemma (feat. Jared Kli...

It was described as a very good story, detailing his personal struggles with addiction and the white prisoner's dilemma, while also incorporating humour into a challenging topic.

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Buy his book - it's a very good story!!

He discusses his struggles with addiction, the white prisoner's dilemma, and much much more.

And they I got taken away when I was 12 and then he just went like full hundred-bidens

So that'll probably be the subject of like the next book or like a documentary

If you can't afford it hit me up. I'll send you a copy or I'll send you like a pdf

The Ben Shapiro Show

A former street individual who had been addicted to drugs wrote this book about his experience and the caretakers who encouraged his addiction by blaming capitalism instead of helping him fight the illness.

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A kid I've gotten to know now, he wrote a book called Crooked Smile who told me the other day he'd been off the street a few years now and he's thriving...

— Episode: The Decay Of The American Medical Establ...

Episode: The Decay Of The American Medical Establishment |...

A former street individual who had been addicted to drugs wrote this book about his experience and the caretakers who encouraged his addiction by blaming capitalism instead of helping him fight the illness.

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A kid I've gotten to know now, he wrote a book called Crooked Smile who told me the other day he'd been off the street a few years now and he's thriving...

...and he said, you know when I was on the street I would meet these caretakers and they would all pat me on the back and go, you're a victim of capitalism. If we get socialism, communism and this will all stop. But in the meantime, here's your heroin.

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