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And we had to crawl through like open sewers in the jungle. It was not a short trip. You're eating bugs, trying to stay alive, trying to escape, trying to get to the water where we got on a boat. And we floated with a bunch of other people, really not knowing where you're floating. And there's no food because we can't carry any food hardly with us. So you've got people that are dying around you and they're sick, right? And there's not much, you have to make some hard decisions.

So I've lived through an overdose emergency before, and I saw these posts and I heard these two guys that I kind of knew of who used to hang around there, had both died off the same batch. And I got this feeling like in my stomach and in my feet, like this really deep sense of deja VU. You know, it's like in The Matrix where the black cat walks past you and you know the program's glitching and I'm like, this is going to happen again. This is happening again. There's an overdose crisis. This whole thing is going to happen again. And then I thought I can't sit out.

I would say that I was running around for a full 10 minutes and it felt like 12 hours. It was scary because I didn't know what they were going to do. If they were going to like grab me and call the cops or they were going to beat me up. And I see this fence leading to freedom and I climbed over it, and then there was another Fence! That was like 15 feet high, about five feet behind it that I just didn't even know was there. And I was like "shit"!