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It is set in 1970s old bombay and concerns opium and its influence. Going no contact is the correct social, moral, spiritual, and religious advice to give any person who feels socially or morally obligated to love a narcopath. An injection known as thiopentone is used for one such test. This is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and god, and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of william s.
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