I was a junior at a small college in a small town well outside a bigger city. I loved school but was starting to feel isolated from the world, cut off and unprepared for it. I was a varsity athlete, 3.5 GPA, and also a daily “tobacco” smoker.
Most people at my school were from out of state, including me, but my best friend was from the larger city nearby. She too was an excellent student and also a heavy drinker and smoker like me. She alluded to high school days of abusing harder drugs, but was trying to steer clear of that while in college. So we did.