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I don't know how I didn't get killed
South African writer Melinda Ferguson on the six weeks she spent in a notorious neighbourhood of Johannesburg, at the height of her heroin addiction, putting herself in terrible danger to get drugs.
Picture: Melinda Ferguson, credit: Aubrey Johnson
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