Triumphs and Tragedies:
A True Story of Wealth and Addiction
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Triumphs and Tragedies:
A True Story of Wealth and Addiction
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Opening Credits
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1
A Bicycle & a Backyard Workshop
Chapter 2
Mining for Experience up on the Hill
Chapter 3
You Just Can’t Put Numbers to Philosophy and Romance
Chapter 4
Hydronic Harmony & Steaming Stress
Chapter 5
¡Olé! We’re on Our Way!
Chapter 6
Windows with a Million-Dollar View
Chapter 7
A Man with Two Families
Chapter 8
Bars on the Million-Dollar Windows
Chapter 9
You Can Run
Chapter 10
Heroin: The Kalani & the Convict
Chapter 11
Deal or No Deal
Chapter 12
Locking the Door on the Sand Castle
Chapter 13
What Kind of Enemy is This?
Chapter 14
Were His Therapist, Attorney, and Public Defender People We Could Count On?
Chapter 15
Thoroughbreds in the Mud
Chapter 16
A General and a Martyr
Chapter 17
“I Hope You’re Not Still Upset About the Guns, Credit Cards, or the Three Grand I Blew.”
Chapter 18
The People of the State of California vs. Chris Alan McMillen
Chapter 19
The High-Bottom Drunk
Chapter 20
All That Is Left
Chapter 21
No Heir to the Throne
Chapter 22
Marriage, McMillen-Style
Chapter 23
Hana Hou! One More Time Around!
Chapter 24
“Stay Clean and Your Life Will Be Set. Choose Drugs, You Are on Your Own.”
Chapter 25
Unyoking Another Type of Thoroughbred
Chapter 26
Numbers Do Not Change Lives