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| • | "what wasn't so good was my last sin: smoking. A friend of mine taught me how when I was thirteen. She took some cigarettes from her apartment, and we went out behind the building. I didn't know how to inhale, so she explained it. 'It's like you have to get scared,' she said. 'Like, say, your mom is coming and get frightened that she'll catch you, so you pull in your breath.' I did what she said and, of course, choked and choked. But I recovered enough to start enjoying it. I have to say my friend was a great teacher. I smoked for many years - first on Saturdays and Sundays, then half a pack a day, and finally a pack a day. I stopped because one of my boyfriends told me it was not good. Later, when I went to Italy to model, people looked at me like I was crazy. 'You are a model and you don't smoke? Unbelievable!' I guess I wanted to be like the others, so I started smoking again... Sure enough, at nineteen I went on a trip to the Seychelles and brought along a carton of cigarettes.'", "Love Always, Petra: A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life's Hidden Gifts" by Petra Nemcova, Dec. 5, '05 |