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Progress, Not Perfection

After a divorce and a monumental life change, the only place she found “safety” was in a hidden bottle. But something else was hidden inside of her: sobriety

My drinking career started when I was 16 and riding with some of my high school friends as we headed to Alligator Point to go swimming for the day. One of the friends had a bottle of vodka and they passed it around. When the bottle got to me, I tipped it up for my “first” drink and they had to take the bottle away because I was drinking it like water.

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