“Being honest with myself was the first thing I had to do, to be honest with other people and to have real relationships with them. I wanted to feel better about being me and to make better choices and decisions in my life, but that couldn’t start until I stopped lying to myself. It took a crackhead stealing every cent I had, stealing from my roommate and neighbours and then trying to extort my emotional labour and the little money I had recovered with more lies and false promises to make me want to be a better person.”