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Alice looks forward to spending her holidays with her friend Beth, yet it happens that the Jewish girl has to go to a camp for six weeks. So Alice visits her grandparents but still at their place she nearly dies of boredom and almost becomes mad there. For this reason she is full of enthusiasm when her old friend Jill calls her to come to her party. It is a tremendous, wonderful, miraculous and incredible experience for her: She is accepted as she has always been one of their crowd. Someone explains that they would play "Button, Button, Who´s got the Button?" this night and offers Alice some coke that she sipps slowly without knowing there is LSD in it. Suddenly everybody seems to be watching everybody else. After some minutes Alice feels something strange inside herself like a storm, the she starts to sweat. She thinks that they want to poison her but she is calmed by Bill. Later she halluzinates echos of voices and strange patterns shifting on the ceiling. She becomes one with the music, she starts laughing hysterically and isn´t able to talk any more. For the first time in her whole life she is full of herself, she loses her sense about reality and the very first time she feels completely uninhibited.
This experience causes that she wants to try pot once, just because of curiosity and she doesn´t worry about becoming dependent because she thinks that one dose doesn´t make her addicted. She doesn´t see the dangers of taking drugs, but only the positive aspect of being able to escape from reality.
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