Johnnie Calloway grew up in a household where violence was the language and silence was survival. By the time he was a teenager, he had learned to disappear — into himself, into substances, into a life that looked like freedom but felt like a slow erasure.
Dragons to Butterflies is the account of what happened next: the years of addiction, the relationships destroyed, the moments where death felt closer than tomorrow. And then — slowly, painfully, without any clean narrative arc — the beginning of something else.
This is not a book about being saved. It’s a book about choosing, over and over again, to stay alive. To face what was done to you. To stop running. To forgive without forgetting. To become something gentler than the world that made you.
Calloway writes without self-pity and without self-congratulation. He simply tells the truth — and trusts the reader to handle it.
For anyone who has lived through something they weren’t sure they’d survive. For anyone who loves someone in that place right now. This book is for you.
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