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Amanda Izzo
Oct 23, 2025
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When I was sixteen, I got a job at KFC. As soon as I started working the drive-thru window, my then twenty-year old boyfriend Anthony would pull up and order a single biscuit but leave with a bucket overflowing with wings, sides and fries in exchange for a halved 30mg Percocet. He had introduced me to painkillers earlier that summer out of the drugs he …

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