Lunch with the Ex
February 2017 | On the Cover

Lunch with the Ex

Though he was full of fear when she asked to meet him, he intuitively knew what to do

When I was just 13, I woke up in the hospital after almost dying from chugging gin from my father’s liquor cabinet on a hot summer day. My parents were on either side of the hospital bed when I came to. They told me that both of my grandfathers had died young due to abuse of alcohol. (My parents can drink safely, so in my case the disease skipped a generation).

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