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Elizabeth is currently working on her forthcoming memoir, Bullet Hole Tattoo.

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A young woman, Elizabeth, with medium-long red hair, a leather jacket and boots is seated on a park bench with a big brown canvas bag next to her. She is looking at something distant to the left hand side. Behind her snow melts and people stroll in the park. — Elizabeth at 19
Photo by C. Thurman

“Brutally honest, logical, salient, brilliant.”
Ian Robertson, a commenter on The Washington Post

Recent Pieces

The 53-year-old actor had been public about her struggles with drug abuse, as have I. For me, the compulsion to use drugs never felt like a choice. It felt like a lightning strike. The rational part of my brain shut down.
I am going to get high now, thank you very much. Get out of my way.

Anne Heche died a tragic death. That isn’t stopping people from shaming her

August 15, 2022, NBCNews.com Opinion

As an ex-heroin addict, I know getting off opioids is near impossible.

May 27, 2022, The Washington Post

Losing Anne Marie

March 1, 2021 Medium

“Her car key was on a ring that extended the length of her forearm. There was an assortment of totems; something that looked like a rabbit’s foot, and religious trinkets and puffy bits of bright pink something. My car key is alone, pristine; not even a ring for adornment. I can slip mine into my pocket like that, a fact of which I am peculiarly proud.”

Blurry black and white closeup of the face of a middle aged woman with dark hair — Image of Anne Marie courtesy of Beverly Stuart

I grow up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which in the 1970s feels like living in Confederate Disneyland.

Image of toy confederate soldiers in the dirt — Image courtesy of Pixabay

Confederate 360°

January 26, 2021, Medium