Here below is as best recounted, an oral history of the real woman behind the television character ‘Gwendolyn “Winnie” Cooper’, and the real-life people she met, as she for whatever reason felt compelled to live the life that she lived, one which was dangerous, reckless, but undeniably on her own terms. Winnie’s tenacity shines through, throughout her entire life, and it’s easy to see why you would view her as a protagonist, rather than a villain. But make no mistake about it, the object of this piece is not to aggrandize drugs, or drug culture, but instead to warn people against it who might be tempted to return to previous habits long forgotten, or because of COVID-19 and the economy, decide to indulge in new more dangerous habits, an order to cope...