I figure that you're still worried about me having lied to you about stuff so I wanted to try to provide you with proof that I haven't.
I was aware that Chris had written something along these lines but I hadn't had a chance to read it. "Jamie" is Andrew Straub, who moved in with me a few months ago in the midst of a divorce after my friend Caleb moved out. He's written for various B-movies and TV productions and sold a few freelance articles to military history publications, did a book called
The Hobo's Guide when he was 19, and like me, he's helping our third roommate, Christopher, with the magazine; he wrote this one, for instance,
which is also about his heroin use. I thought perhaps that the other person you mentioned to me was Scott, who's crashing on our couch, but it looks like the whole thing is about Andy. He's had a heroin problem on and off since he was a teenager, and sells it to a few people he knows on occasion. Notice that in the article he discusses stealing from a barge when he was younger; I'm from Dallas, which doesn't have many barges around, and I'm obviously not the sort who would pistol whip someone, as Andy relates in the article. I'm not sure why you thought it was me in the first place, but I just wanted to make sure you're not stressed about something that isn't the case, because I know your work is stressful to begin with and I don't want that to be added to unnecessarily.
I did snort heroin for a while after we broke up, but luckily I never got seriously addicted and was able to stop relatively easily a few months in to it. I'm doing very well now; giving my first university lecture at Rutgers on Tuesday, still writing for Vanity Fair and Huffington Post, doing a few other projects here and there.
I hope everything's going well for you.