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Doctors cut Roy Holmes off from his pain medication in 2014 and cheap yeezys started using heroin. He overdosed 16 times that year but survived each time, his son said. After the last one before his death, he told his son he wanted to change both of their lives.

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“After that we gave up,” Michael Holmes said.

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