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He Opened The Door

She was a dry drunk, searching and lost, until a suggestion by a teacher unexpectedly showed her the door to sobriety

Originally from Massachusetts, my ex-husband and I—both alcoholics, although we didn’t know it at the time—left there in 1970 driving a Volkswagen camper. We were headed for a new life in southern California with two children, a son, 4, and a daughter, 2.

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