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Dancing at the End of World: My mother's story surviving the 80's NYC Crack Epidemic.

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May 11, 2026
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This featured interview is of my mother and her personal account of experiencing the New York City crack epidemic through the 1980’s. This interview was sparked by a Substack note I made about a conversation about the current eroding of American empire as we currently speak and asked if she could recall periods in her lifetime where people around her believed to be the “end of the world”

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