![]() ![]() Instead of graduating, Blakinger was sent off to a procession of women’s prisons for about two years. It led to her arrest on a felony drug charge during what would have been her final semester at Cornell. ![]() She survived a bridge-jumping suicide attempt but not the dark spiral of a debilitating heroin addiction. Her mental health issues got worse there. More: The Florida Book War of 2023: Trump, DeSantis battle it out for literary supremacy More: Cerabino: DeSantis: Proposed state license plate features warning to "out-of-state cars" More: Cerabino: Woke or joke? Trying to feel the pain of straight, white men Even with all the skating and an eating disorder, she cruised through high school academically and was accepted as a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. That led to bulimia and the end of her Olympic dreams. Trying to make herself more petite for her male skating partners, she taught herself to throw up after every meal. It’s a remarkable book written by an Ivy League English major who landed in New York’s prison system as a result of a heroin addiction and eventually found sobriety and redemption.Īs a teenager, Blakinger ice skated six hours a day in a failed quest to be an Olympics figure skater. ![]()
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