02352cam a2200277 4500 1905580572 TxAuBib 20250203120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781957936277 1957936274 25db8772-4b7f-4029-a2d1-61aa50fdee5c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11452859 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Andrade, Laura. Four Seconds [Libby Audiobook] : A Memoir. J Publishing, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 196MB. HTML:<p>"I'm not going to try it," I said.</p><br /> <p>"You'll like it," she argued.</p><br /> <p>"I know I'll like it," I said. "That's why I'm not going to try it."</p><br /> <p>"Try it just this once and I'll never ask you to do it again."</p><br /> <p>That WAS a deal. I slipped back into the driver's seat while Pat corn-rowed two neat lines of the silky white powder on the back of a plastic cassette tape cover.</p><br /> <p>Fifteen hundred dollars every month, an abusive boyfriend, a molested child, a lost family, hotels for houses, a ruined leg, a gun to my head, a knife to my butt, a jail cell all my own. Black eyes, bruised days, broken hours. Looking back, it seems strange what I gave up to get my roommate off my back.</p><br /> <p>It only took four seconds.</p><br /> <p>***</p><br /> <p>In her debut memoir, Andrade tells of her years with cocaine and crystal methamphetamines—using, then selling—until all she had left of the life she wanted was a chalk outline and a pack of cigarettes. This is the story of her use and recovery, of the people who frustrated and inspired her, of her decision to leave the drug world.</p><br /> <p>It is the story of her slow, often unsteady walk home.</p><br /> <p>Author's note: This is the complete story for Four Seconds. It includes Four Seconds to Fall, Four Seconds to Break, and Four Seconds to Heal.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-02-03 20:00:03. Pace, Jean Knight. Lams, Belinda. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=25db8772-4b7f-4029-a2d1-61aa50fdee5c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)