I quit drinking for good after a terrible game of Scrabble. Embarrassing, but true. I kept this story to myself because it was pathetic. What kind of person joins a 12 step fellowship after a game of Scrabble goes wrong? Well, me, it turns out. Years later I realized that there was a lot more that went wrong besides Scrabble. In fact, encoded in this brief incident was everything that was making life so difficult for me back then. And that included my unwillingness to talk about it. So here I am, telling my not very cool, not at all edgy ‘rock bottom’, story, in case it helps someone else.
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The Hardest Lesson I Had to Learn to Get Sober
I quit drinking for good after a terrible game of Scrabble. Embarrassing, but true. I kept this story to myself because it was pathetic. What kind of person joins a 12 step fellowship after a game of Scrabble goes wrong? Well, me, it turns out. Years later I realized that there was a lot more that went wrong besides Scrabble. In fact, encoded in this brief incident was everything that was making life so difficult for me back then. And that included my unwillingness to talk about it. So here I am, telling my not very cool, not at all edgy ‘rock bottom’, story, in case it helps someone else.