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Article: Drug Tale New Chapter In Amazing Oprah Story
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 16, 1995
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Picture this, America.
It's the mid-1970s and Oprah Winfrey, the woman who one day will
become America's Imaginary Best Friend, is at a party, or maybe at
home. Somewhere safe and secret.
Somebody in the room - maybe Oprah, maybe someone else - pulls
out a baggie containing a small amount of cocaine, and places a small
amount in a bottle.
A liquid, most likely a mixture of water and baking soda, is
added to the bottle, which is then capped and shaken.
Then a second and highly flammable and dangerous liquid, ether,
is added to the solution, probably with an eye dropper. Once again
the bottle is capped and shaken - and then the eye dropper is used to
extract the substance floating at ...