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I don't do drugs but i do everything else. >> you know, something was missing in me. some part of me wanted to be a dope fiend. my whole life leading up to that point. in my mind it was my first step towards being an artist. >> you think a certain level of dissatisfaction or unhappiness is part of the creative process? >> great art can be created when you are unhappy. but the best art is created through intense suffering. so then do you put yourself in a situation where you are constantly in pain? and the answer to that question is, yes. >> that's just about everybody i know. i don't know what...

Editor's Note: The following short story by Frank H. Toub, a 3L at Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, was the 2022 winner of the ABA Journal's annual Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction.

Kids she serves. i think it has a lot to do with the reaction they have to food. >> anthony: dessert is homemade fromage blanc -- farmer cheese, with chocolate and orange segments. >> daniel: what do you want to be when you grow up? veterinarian. [ boy speaking french ] >> daniel: fireman. [ daniel speaking french ] [ boy speaking french ] >> daniel: engineering machine gun. >> anthony: he wants to make machine guns? >> daniel: engineer -- engineering machine gun, yeah. >> anthony: okay, keep an eye on that one. all right. for a dope fiend, "feeding the monkey" means finding and sticking with ...

♪ >> it's a great song. but it's heroin music. >> in the early '70s this is where i lived. you know, back then, you bought us heroin we would have said, oh cool. i would like to try some of that. it wasn't like i fell into it or accidentally got addicted? oh, really it's addicting, gee, how did that happen? no, i knew. >> he never dealt with the insecurity and all the issues that put him down that road to begin with. >> people forget anthony bourdain was a junkie. he is a drug addict. i'm also a junkie. i don't do drugs but i do everything else. >> you know, something was missing in me. some...

>> people forget anthony bourdain was a junky. he is a drug addict. i'm also a junky. i don't do drugs but i do everything else. >> you know, something was missing in me. some part of me wanted to be a dope fiend. my whole life leading up to that point. in my mind it was my first step towards being an artist. >> you think a certain level of unhappiness or dissatisfaction is part of the creative process. >> great art can be created when you are unhappy. but the best art is created through intense suffering. so then do you put yourself in a situation where you are constantly in pain? and the ans...