January 2012

Ready for a Second Chance

She relapsed after years in the program only to see everything she'd worked for fall apart

At the age of 12, I was placed in a psych ward for two months for issues unrelated to alcohol use, but in retrospect, definitely of alcoholic thinking and temperament. There I met a girl who became my "best friend forever." A couple years later, it was she with whom I had my first drunk, followed by many, many more. Every time I drank, it was alcoholically: falling down, blind and stupid.

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