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Dancing With Tina - A Memoir of Co-dependency By Terry Oldes.Dancing with Tina is the heartwarming and inspiring account of one man’s struggles with sexual identity, co-dependency and crystal meth. This very personal and sometimes graphic account covers two adventurous years in his life. The story traces the diverse relationships and friendships impacted by a drug that is horrifically affecting this nation’s gay community.Terry Oldes tells this story in an honest and humorous manner that will hopefully motivate those who have never used crystal meth to not pick it up and inspire those who are currently using to find hope at a time when it is difficult to see.Written as a conversational, first person narrative, readers will find DANCING WITH TINA both personal and disturbing. This book will interest anyone who has “Danced with Tina” or known someone who has.Available at local bookstores and www.amazon.com -Writer's myspace for more info - http://www.myspace.com/terryoldes

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Dancing With Tina - Book Introduction

Introduction      I danced with TINA for a little over a year. Sometimes we danced to a soothing waltz, more often than not to a frenzied Charleston that would have made Fred and G...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:03:00 GMT

Dancing With Tina - Book Excerpt 1

I had first tried Crystal Meth when I was twenty-two, but to me that doesn't count. It was with a straight group of friends, and we did it simply because we had been drinking heavily the previous even...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:02:00 GMT

Dancing With Tina - Book Excerpt 2

I suppose I made it clear earlier I was never into role-playing, not really. I can joke about French maid's uniforms or Richard Nixon masks but that doesn't mean I would really do it. The only role-pl...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Dancing With Tina - Book Excerpt 3

Now began the real nightmare. For the next eight hours I was in hell and it was all due to five days with no sleep and nonstop drug abuse. I locked all the doors and the windows, made sure all the shu...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:58:00 GMT