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March 1984

Looking for Love

I WAS FOURTEEN when I first went looking for love. I found a bottle instead. I wanted so much to be needed and cared for. I wanted someone to feel they had the whole world in their arms when they held me. I wanted to belong to someone. From the time I was fourteen, I needed alcohol to give me the courage to trade my body for love. I was living in such a dreamworld that I never knew it wasn't love I was getting until it was almost too late.

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