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requIem for IV enabLers In his July 4 Opinion article, “Stuck,” Michael Harney asks the question: "At what point does one lose one's humanity?" Answer: when he habitually inserts needles full of poison into his body to the predictable detriment/destruction of himself, his friends and his family. — Sidney Nemms Asheville
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