Chapter 5She drew in on the little wooden pipe, letting the m*******a smoke settle inside her lungs, letting it work its magic once more. Julie Soldano wanted an escape and in this pot, she found it. Earlier, three college guys had given her the m*******a, in exchange for blow jobs. Julie hadn’t minded; she knew the pot would make her forget their low laughter as they walked away from her. Make her forget how she was five hundred miles from home and knew no one here in Chicago.
She found the streets cold. Somewhere, in this flat landscape of buildings and a huge lake, Julie Soldano had expected to find refuge. It had been two weeks since her grandmother, her “Nana,” had discovered the little bag of pot in her bedroom dresser drawer. Two weeks since the screaming argument the two of them h
