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I drank for twenty-five years, drowning my hopes and dreams in a sea of booze and dope. At the end, I weighed 130 pounds and had breath you could arc-weld with. I drank to kill the pain and lubricate the denial. Fifteen years out of grad school, I was mindlessly spraying myself with ant spray at night to sleep. It never occurred to me to spray the ground around my bush.