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New York Times reporter David Carr thought his life might make a good book. So he wrote about the time of his life that was filled with drug use, parenting mishaps and close encounters with oblivion.  It's a junkie memoir, but one that Carr says was reported, not invented.

A reporter looks back at his grim past

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