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EDGES MAGAZINE Issue 17 |
April/May 1999 |
| Just out of Prison | |
| Michael appeared in Edges a few years ago. At that time he was struggling with addiction and had experienced homelessness. Once again he comes back to the office of Edges and he speaks to our magazine. He states the following: | |
Since
the last time I was in Edges, I've been in jail for eighteen months. I
got out of prison and I had nowhere to live. I didn't go back with my
ex-girlfriend so I ended up moving into a hostel, and stayed in there
and started dabbling in drugs again, got back involved with crime. I've
been back to prison again, this time for assaults and theft, I've been
in Walton in Liverpool. Before going there though, I was seeing a girl
called Leah and she fell pregnant. I didn't know before I went to jail,
I only found out when I was in jail and now I am back out, I've been out
nearly 3 weeks and I am back at the hostel. I am waiting to get a house
up in Clayton-le-Moors, so I can get away from Blackburn town centre. I
don't want the baby growing up around Blackburn town centre. Hopefully,
things will go a bit better and I'm not back on the smack as we call it
yet. Me and Leah will move away from round here. In the past drugs have done all sorts for me. I must have had every drug going and obviously the worse one - the smack - there is just no worse drug than that. You've talked about it loads of times haven't you, with loads of people and they've all told you the same thing, they've told you what its like so they can't be wrong can they?
But it just screws you up.
