March 2011

Web Exclusive: White Wine Did the Job

From a childhood of fear to years of heavy drinking, she finally found AA in Paris

I was born into a French family, in Algeria, in a civil war. There was chaos, permanent anxiety, bombs, murder, corpses on the pavement for mothers to pretend they weren’t there, as they walked by holding their children’s hands. Denial for survival, for sanity.

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