Family Postcards

When I was drinking, I polished myself up on holidays to go home and participate in the perfect family postcard, but always felt I was the imposter. I knew how to play the postcard game, because the family who raised me from the time I was 6 months old, and their children and grandchildren were all "normal." I tried desperately to measure up and never knew that I didn't need to. They just loved me no matter what, but it took a lot of years of sobriety to see that.