And what happened is I got so involved into serving people and working in the community feeding programs that because these people knew I was a drug addict and they began to watch how my life began to change, people started having other hopes that their life can change also.

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Which is rather a dark thought really: that the heroin addict and petty thief who introduced Winehouse herself to the drug scene could be the beneficiary of her sadly shortened life.

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