1376: Sean Hemeon | The Good Little Drug Lord

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Family and his own mind had failed to provide. Confidence, belonging, sexual freedom, and the feeling that he was finally somebody. Within a few years, he had gone from a closeted Mormon theater student to supplying Washington, DC's club scene, carrying drugs through airports, working with federal agents, and hiding from a supplier who threatened everyone he loved. Today we'll examine how shame becomes addiction, how an intelligent person watches his moral boundaries collapse one rationalization at a time. And whether redemption is possible when you survived, but someone else didn't.

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