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"On some level, Lessig realized that the relationship was ‘fucked up and shouldn’t happen,’ he says. But he also had a precocious 14-year-old’s exaggerated sense of his own maturity. 'I felt that I could handle it,’ he says. 'That everything was under control.’"

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John Heilemann “The Choirboy" New York Magazine 5/30/2005

Found this quote while rereading the article, and am trying to figure out what seems so interesting to me about a man saying this

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"It was always hard for me to sleep. I still dreamed about dope, sometimes. Dreams where I’d be doing something ordinary, walking down Fifth Avenue or something like that, and then all of a sudden I’d fins myself in a dark little room somewhere, one of a thousand dark little rooms I had been in, and the room would be full of people fixing and I would be, too. I’d have my works out and my arm tied off and someone would be cooking up a fat dose of junk in a spoon and I would smell that smell and the next thing I knew I’d be taking a shot."

— Dope by Sara Gran (2006)