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Mickey says that coming clean feels almost as good as heroin. In saying this it shows that the addiction and wanting doesn't really ever go away. This could help someone understand what actually happens when they try to quit and that they simply must be stronger than the addiction.

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I believe it is good advice but fro Mickey's situation her wanting to be back into softball so bad cause her to do anything including doing drugs just to be able to get back as soon as possible.

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The fact that oxy was the main thing they all shared in common is what made them friends, without the oxy they would be seen as completely different people.

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At the end of Chapter 53, Mickey says that coming clean feels almost as good as heroin. and I think that realesed a lot of her pressure.

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it is good advice because if you do something you should try your best

lexi thompson

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the statement is kind of true they were friends bu they probably wouldn't have been friends if they didnt all do drugs.

lexi thompson

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Mickey says that her confession of everything almost feels as good as when she was on heroine. I think this makes her feel good because she finally got all the stress and feelings released after keeping things secret for so long and it just feels good to her to feel relief. I think that would help most people to accept what has happened and move on to a better life and better decisions.

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I think that you should put a lot of time in effort in something you love so you are able to do whatever it is really well but also not limit yourself by that one thing. Mickey limited herself to only being good at softball, and when she got injured she wanted to push herself too hard which lead to a lot of pain. She satarted overusing her medication which leads to her addiction.

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She says that confessing all that happend is almost as good as heroine. I think this helps because she has kept things serect and bottled up her emontions for so long, that is has to feel good to just let it all go. I think this would help most people with the guilt, but i think this would make some people feel worse. Retelling it might make them feel like they are reliving it.

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Coming out clean and telling everyone what has happened feels as good as heroin. She has kept everything in for so long. Yes just by hearing her story.

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I think the satement was partially true. Derick was only around because he was trying to get with Josie and Josie mostly just hung out and talked to Mickey when drugs were involved. I do thimk Luther was a friend because on page 245 Mickey says " Luther picks me up a few hours later, coming into the house and doing the whole meet-your-mom thing".

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I belevie that while you should throw yourself into what you love to do the most, you shouldn't limit yourself to just one thing. This might help you become greater in whatever you choose but in Mickey's case it didn't. Mickey not being able to do the one thing she was good at made her try to rush back into playing which cased her lots of pain, and ultmently is what started her addiction.

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Mickey says at the end of chapter 53 that coming clean and telling her secretes was almost as good as heroin. I think that coming clean is the best thing to do so you have nothing to feel guilty for.Yes, I think coming clean would help because then no one would feel guilty about anything.

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At the end of chapter 53 Mickey had come clean she had revealed everything that she has done from stealing, lying, and from the death to her friends. I believe this helped because throughout the whole story she had felt guilty but due to the Oxy it didn't really let her feel it until the end on pg.358 she is on the wheel, sobbing because she is out of heroin and that her friends died so to come clean with her secrets was just the relief she needed. Do I think it could help anyone I do but it will take its time.

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At the end of chapter 53 Mickey says that telling all of her secrets is almost as good as heroin. I think it helps because it is one less thing to fill guilty for. I think about anyone who tells their secrets will fill better.

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Because Mickey didn't dance well and ended up choosing softball over dancing. yes it is good advice. It makes her recovery harder because it reminds her of the dance studio.

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Mickey says that coming clean was almost as as good as heroin. I think it helped Mickey to come clean to feel better after all she did. Like steal her mom's wedding ring and steal money from Devra, and leaving her 3 friends dead in the garage. I think coming clean feels good to everyone. It doesn't feel good to keep things to yourself. Coming clean to someone relieves some stress and pressure off your chest.

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In all text this would be great advice I believe, but also shouldn't be taking to the full extent because although it is great advice it shouldn't take up most of your life time you should be able to do more things give yourself freedom and much more rather than kill yourself for one thing because that's the reason why she got addicted to Oxy and lost herself her only self so it shouldn't be taking to serous.

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Yes, this is good advice because if you want to do something try and be the very best you can be a that certain thing.It made her not to recover how she needed endure a little pain in the process.

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At the end of Chapter 53, Mickey says that coming clean feels almost as good as heroin. Finally coming clean released a lot of that pressure of hiding things and lying and put it all in the spot light. She put herself in a place where she could get help. I think coming clean like that could help a lot of people, but some might have the mentality like Mickey had, that coming clean would ruin everything, when in reality it would be the starting point of fixing a lot of problems.

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At the end of chapter 53 Mickey says getting all of her secrets out is almost as good as doing heroin. I believe it helps because she doesn't have to feel the guilt of keeping it a secret anymore. It may not exactly help anyone close to her, but it certainly helped her get on the track to recovery.

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She says that coming clean about everything feels almost as good as heroin. I feel this helps her because she got everything out in the open and she doesn't have to hold anything in anymore or hide anything from anyone. Coming clean about stuff you've done feels great and makes you almost feel okay about what you've done rather than feeling guilty about the stupid things you've done especially when it comes to the things Mickey has done.

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At the end of Chapter 53, Mickey says coming clean is almost as good as heroin. Coming clean, confessing your sins, a sense of accountability, dealing with the consequences of your actions, and coming to peace with yourself helps a lot. Doing these things helps because it gets you out of that phase of regret, guilt, and anxiety after an event that has you feeling dreadful. Coming to peace relieves the soul. Coming clean about anything helps just about anybody.

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Getting everything off of her chest and finally coming clean. It makes her self feel better about everything she is done. She no longer has anything to hide or worry about people finding out. It gives her one less thing in life to be constantly thinking about. I don't think it would help everyone because some stuff has left to much scaring to just tell someone and it all the sudden feel better. Plus not everyone process stuff the same way. So I think it helps most but not just anyone.

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On page 299 Mickey is closest to Luther, says "You do what you want to do, Mickey. I'm not judging you. Just be careful." that shows that Luther really cared about Mickey more than himself.

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I believe this isn't entirely great advice. This advice caused her to be entirely focused on softball and not get to know herself outside of the sport. I'm not saying it's bad to be dedicated to a sport, but you should have a little freedom to explore outside of it. Due to Mickey being so focused on being better fr her season, it caused to her become addicted to oxy to get away from the pain of her injury so she could recover faster. This led on the the heroin addiction.

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Its pretty good advice, that way she could be super good and committed to something. It did hurt her later on because she was so committed she pushed herself too hard after the wreck. She had to take the pills to deal with the pain and then she got addicted.

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"Pick one thing, and do it well," isn't good advice at all. Because softball was the "one thing" in her life, she saw her value in if she could play better than everyone else. When she got hurt, Mickey focused strictly on getting better as soon as possible for softball, regardless of the outcome, instead of just healing at her own pace and slowly getting better. Softball is her only identity and when Mickey was at risk of losing that, she panicked and didn't know what to do and ended up pushing herself too hard.

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I believe this is good advice for someone. In life if your going to do something you should do it really well. You should pick one thing a make yourself the best you can at it. It made it harder for her because she didn't know how else to express herself. She only had one way of releasing her emotions and she couldn't do it. She had no other outlets to let everything she was feeling out.

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I feel sometimes this can be good advice if you are very good at one thing but you should never limit yourself to o one thing when you could have many talents. She described herself as strong and i feel like she never allowed herself to be weak or show others that she did still have weak moments just the same as everyone else so when she got hurt she felt like she had to recover faster than others and do better because of who she was and the labels on her.

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she said that tell the truth about everything is almost as good as heroin. i think it helps her relieve the stress she is undergoing. i think it would help people by telling the truth because one lie leads to another.

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"Pick one thing, and do it well," is not good advice. Dedicating your life to one thing and one thing only jeopardizes everything if what you dedicated yourself to fails. Softball was Mickey's dedication, she lived and breathed it. When her fate in softball seemed to not be going the way she wanted it to, everything went to chaos. Mickey being centered around softball caused her to become impatient with recovery which led to her demise.

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i think it is good advice because if you do something you should try your hardest .

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"Coming clean almost feels as good as Heroin." This helps her, because she is seeing that what she was doing was wrong, as well as this will help almost everyone, because that way they'll also see that what they're doing to others, to themselves, to everyone really, is only pushing them deeper down the hole that they've been shoved into, because of Heroin.

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I think that they were all her friends but they were not good friends. I say this because Josie and the rest of them are the reason she continues doing what she is. Like on page 223 where they talk about buying from a guy that derrick knows. Josie is only cared about buying not about putting the rest of them in danger. Also on page 166 she talks about how the oxy makes her not feel like herself and how she feels like a different person. When you around good and real friends you should be able to be yourself.

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It's a sort of good device, that way she could devote herself onto one thing, and become the best that she could for it. However, this would also make her try more than she really wanted to, which was during her recovery, to take more pills than necessary to push her body past its healing speed.

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the statement is kind of true they were friends but only because of drugs.

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I think Mickey's mom is not right. The reason they are friend is because they had similar interest. They all liked drugs. Luther was more of one than the others. On page 248 Mickey and Luther go to a game together and hang out like friends do.

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I think of this part as a sort of reveal to Mickey, that these weren't exactly her friends, but Luther was probably the only one that was different. The only real relationship that she had however, with all of them, are that they're only their for one thing, which was Heroin.

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I think that the statement that her mother made is true.No I don't think that Josie, Luther, and Derrick were friends because if they were really her friends then they wouldn't have let Mickey do heroine.On page 191 Mickey says"Then I went home and swiped Mom's wedding ring from her jewelry drawer, hawked it at a pawn shop, and drove here to Edith's, ready to get high and forget everything."

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Mickey's mom has a point and is very correct in saying they weren't "real" friends. The only thing that kept them together was drugs and they were different people around each other. Real friends are themselves with each others. On page 166 Mickey says "Right now, I'm not me. And I'm so 🤬 happy." Doesn't sound real to me.

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I believe this is a tricky question because in one point the mother is right, but in one point she wasn't really there and on pg.287 Luther didn't want to do it because he wanted to say no but under pressure he well Josie did it for him. So I believe that Luther and Josie were the only true friends but due to the Oxy couldn't bail out.

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I think that Mickey's mom was correct about that statement. If she would have never met Josie and Jadine she would have never started shooting up her veins. I don't really think they were her friends. The only one that really cared or was there was Luther always telling her to be safe and not to do it outside of Edith's. On pg.299 Luther says "You do what you want to do Mickey. I'm not judging you. Just be careful.", signifying that Luther was really the only one who cared for her and her health.

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I do think that what Mickey's mom said is true about Derrick and Josie. But I also think Luther was somewhat of a friend, he was more concerned about her than Josie or Derrick ever was, and even though he was kind of her boyfriend, that still wasn't enough to get either of them to stop taking drugs. "Luther picks me up a few hours later, coming into the house and doing the whole meet-your-mom thing."  ch. 33, pg. 245 Mickey's still worried though that without Oxy in her system that she won't be like she is with it and conversation will eventually stop and that it will become awkward which isn't something that usually happens when you're around friends.

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I think that Mickeys mothers statemnet was only partially true. I think that Derrick was kind of a friend but was just around becuase of Josie. Josie was not a friend they never just hung out or text each other because they liked each other they only talked or were around each other when they were doing drugs.However,  I think that Luther was her friend. For  example "Luther picks me up a few hours later, coming into the house and doing the whole meet-your-mom thing."  ch. 33, pg. 245. If he didn't care about her and wasn't her friend he wouldn't go met her mom and stay and talk to her.

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I think this statement is partly true. True friends who care about your well being wouldn't let you continue to kill yourself like Mickey, Josie, Luther, and Derick all did to one another. On the other hand Luther on page 299 he told Mickey to be careful. Therefore, to me I feel as if he actually cared a little about Mickey's health.
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I think to a certain extent this statement is true but at the same time they all had peer pressure on them from one another and they were all addicted and could really do much about it let alone knowing how to quite. I feel like they definitely were good friends of each others and they all valued each other a lot. " i will not think about how Derrick finally escaped his skin, how Josie doesn't have to compete with Jadine anymore, or that Luther won't have to patiently smile through yet another basketball story, someone else reenacting his life."