Of the four quotations on the opening page of Robyn Flemming’s forthcoming book “Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction”, the one by Joseph Campbell moved me most: “Your life is the fruit of your own doing.” Had I asked myself at 15 where I’d be 40 years later, it certainly wouldn’t be in a small village in south-western Hungary weathering a pandemic. But then again, at 15, I hadn’t experienced the vagaries of life.