| There are references, 
                            such as I-me-my, most of the people-they-their-them, 
                            dominant past tense (was, exposed, met, 
                            had, felt, and tried) , and substitution (it 
                            in "it would deepen..." substituting 
                            for "by using drugs, I would become a part of 
                            their world").
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| This paragraph is about 
                            "my" story with drugs, and so words about "I" and 
                            "drugs" play an important part in the text cohesion 
                            here. The main word chain is:  me — drugs — I — drugs — I — I — drugs — I — my — I — pot — cocaine — my. There are repetitions such as new, way of life, I, drugs, exposed, hyponymy, such as drug, pot, cocaine, and synonymy, such as "was exposed to — met", "exposed me to drugs — doing drugs — using drugs". | 
| And, but 
                            and even are all used to show the logical text 
                            links. | 
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