She then pins her hopes on pairs skating with a new partner, Mark Ladwig. She trains obsessively but eventually realizes that she does not have the raw talent to compete individually. Blakinger performs very well in school and brings home many trophies and prizes. Her life at home was highly organized, and productivity at all times was encouraged. She comes from a high-achieving family with a Cornell-educated reading teacher mother and a Harvard-educated workaholic lawyer father. Taking care of Charlotte was the only thing Blakinger felt she had done right in a long time.īlakinger travels back and forth in time as she chronicles the complex circumstances that led to her addiction and eventual arrest. She also worries about what has become of Charlotte, her beloved dog. She never delivered the English paper needed to graduate from Cornell, and her boyfriend Alex is not taking her calls. Now that Blakinger is sober, she realizes that she has a host of problems. She remains high for a while because of all the Oxycontin she swallowed, but eventually she begins the process of detoxification with Suboxone helping to mute the harshest side effects. Instead of making the drug delivery, Blakinger is booked into the Tompkins County Jail. Blakinger fixates on wanting a cigarette even while she has a late English paper and a Tupperware full of heroin that she needs to deliver to her boyfriend, Alex.

Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink opens on a bitterly cold day in Ithaca, New York. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Blakinger, Keri.

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