February 2012

Poison Arrow

A young woman describes her toxic nine-year love affair with booze

The first time I got drunk was Valentine’s Day 2000; how fitting as I fell hopelessly in love. I was at Lindsey’s. Her parents were out of town and we raided their liquor cabinet. I was 15 and hanging out with the cool girls. We were unsupervised teenagers on a Friday night. It happened to be a holiday, which was reason enough for us all to get drunk.

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