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Car Trouble

was handling myself pretty well until they pulled the crack pipe out of my back seat. It was June 1, 2018, less than a week since I’d moved to Denver for an internship at the magazine you’re currently reading. I stood in the dusty lot of Mirage Recovery Service in Commerce City, where local police had towed my Honda CR-V following her four-day

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