September 2025
| Stories of Gratitude
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Best Friends
Sobriety gave her a brand-new relationship, with one who knew her secrets and dreams
One of the things that kept me drinking was the fear of losing my social life if I stopped. I was 22 and every weekend looked the same. I would spend most of Friday feeling anxious about what I’d do and who I’d see that night. Final decisions would be made around
5:00 p.m., approximately five hours after I would have liked. Then I would usually end up doing some combination of getting dinner, “going out,” getting drunk, getting bored, then going home. What a life. Understandably, I was terrified to give that up.
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