It wasn't her crazy thick Chinese accent of a dialect that even the Chinese guys that all stand around smoking outside the grim cheap 2nd floor electronics stores and awful lighting wholesalers that are way down on Bowery, near Canal, by the bridge, couldn't begin to even attempt to understand and how she all but mangled every sentence when attempting things in English, but instead, it was, in hindsight, her staggering knowledge of opiates and such that caused most of our troubles. Only someone in a very deep state of denial indeed wouldn't accept the fact that it played a major role. At first. But still.
