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Arrested development: The Aaron Cohen story
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May 20, 2020
“After about 15 minutes he decided whatever was being done must have been done and went back in. His mother was lying on the bed with her legs spread, attempting to insert 450g of Penang heroin into her vagina. Sweating, squeezing, contorting herself and ultimately failing. She took it out and Aaron repacked it but it was still too big to go up inside her.”
How’s that for a touching image of mother and son bonding during a family excursion?...I had never heard of Aaron Cohen or this story before, but I picked it up on a whim in an op shop, and I am very glad I did.
I have read and enjoyed my fair share of these contemporary prison memoirs and this is notable in a number of ways, one of them being the emphasis that it places on Cohen’s life before hand, giving us a well-rounded picture and deeper understanding of how he ended up in his predicament.
The background to Cohen’s upbringing is sad and heart breaking and makes you wonder what chance do the children of chronic addicts really have?...This is a memoir concerning the tyranny of addiction as much as it is about prison. Little's concise but informative approach makes this a strong, and at times gripping story of a lesson learned the hard way.
How’s that for a touching image of mother and son bonding during a family excursion?...I had never heard of Aaron Cohen or this story before, but I picked it up on a whim in an op shop, and I am very glad I did.
I have read and enjoyed my fair share of these contemporary prison memoirs and this is notable in a number of ways, one of them being the emphasis that it places on Cohen’s life before hand, giving us a well-rounded picture and deeper understanding of how he ended up in his predicament.
The background to Cohen’s upbringing is sad and heart breaking and makes you wonder what chance do the children of chronic addicts really have?...This is a memoir concerning the tyranny of addiction as much as it is about prison. Little's concise but informative approach makes this a strong, and at times gripping story of a lesson learned the hard way.
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