The true story of a crack-head who made it through to recovery and cure. It will shock, rivet, and inspire you.
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If you are a BABY BOOMER, Read this book!!
newThis is a must read for every teenager and everyone with kids. It is brutally honest and at one point or another, we have experienced what marvin has written.
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When you think of a crack-head, what kind of picture comes to mind? A stupid teenager, with little, or no education? A prostitute? A smack-talking, ghetto-born African-American? Or, maybe, a misfit Caucasion dropout, from a broken home, with an alcoholic, abusive, absentee father? Crack-heads are street-walking, panhandling, hustling, poorly dressed, teeth missing, gaunt, thin, useless, and dangerous looking kinds of people, that you’d never invite over to dinner, right? Well, guess again, because the author of these memoirs is an educated, articulate and thoughtful, formerly successful family and businessman, a grandfather, who owns expensive suits, always knows how to appear well groomed, and knows which fork is used when, at the gourmet banquets of the upper middle class. “I Romanced the Stone” observes, exposes, and discusses fundamental addictive behaviors in our society, and weaves these general themes throughout the authors own personal journey. The reader comes to understand that drug addiction is not some exclusive disease of the poor, or the uneducated, or the social castaways of our world; it is an insatiable and insidious ghost, shadowing anyone, of any walk of life, from any economic or social environment. It can appear as a false god, “the good life”, and then devour you as “the grim reaper” is revealed bewilderingly to you, as your new slave master. The book tells how the author was rehabilitated, cured, and had his life and soul spared, through love and help from family, and most significantly, through a powerful spiritual experience. The publication and mass distribution of this story is an important part of a “giving back” process the author feels compelled undertake. It is an inspiring, yet fearsomely awesome story, sending a message of hope, and advisement, to those many thousands who have friends, or loved ones, or who are themselves, still self-medicating their pained, tortured souls, with mind-numbing substances, in a pathetic and futile effort to find some measure of joy and happiness in their lives.
A Must Read
new"Little did I know when I sat down to read Marvin Wilson's I Romanced The Stone" I would be reading about myself and my addictions. Different drugs of choice, of course (computer, television and procrastination), but addictions nonetheless. Anything that keeps you from being your true and total self and anything that keeps one from finding their true inner peace is a drug. And just when I had "serious doubts about my ever being whole again", here comes a book so poignant, so deep, and so apropos I now know that healing is possible. To experience the joy of being healed, delivered and set free has to be an awesome feeling. A must read for everyone who is addicted or not! "Nothing beats a failure but a try!"