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To: Brumar89 who wrote (218664)	9/5/2007 11:10:10 PM
From: alanrs	Respond to of 793750

I wouldn't mind telling my story in a different setting, but I truly have to say I don't know. At the time, I lived in Long Beach and worked in Compton. My running partner was an informant for the DEA and I was being recruited (hemmed in, legally). The DEA was ok with supplying the drugs-there are various ways, something called the monitor program was the one I was exposed to. They give you $100 to go buy street drugs which you deliver back to them so that they can theoretically monitor the strength and they pay you $100 for doing it. Anyway, the DEA is serious, not so much about the war on drugs, but more getting high profile busts for career advancement. The people Leo (running partner) was screwing with were more than capable of offing me. I figured I had a couple of years max to play out that string, not figuring I was slick enough to figure a way out. Left town on a ticket under a different name (you could do that then). I got lucky. I had decided to quit many times before that. Ha. Went through withdrawal 13 times. Couldn't do it. Getting off had nothing to do with me. Staying off probably did. Enough. It's really boring and mundane. ARS