Friday, 9th March 2012, was just a typical day for me as it started. I had woken up after a night of heavy drinking feeling sick, shameful and fearful, so to get rid of that feeling, I did what I had been doing for some time to alleviate that feeling, I took another drink, I […]
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Happy St. Patricks Day. And for my fellow Irish man, “Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!” Coming from an Irish background, my father was Irish, and I married an Irish man in my early twenties. (I also divorced an Irish man in my early twenties, but that is a whole non-alcohol-related story) Once I had turned
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At 4.45 am this morning, the alarm went off, and I struggled out of bed while the rest of the house was still sleeping. Sobriety, has allowed me to wake up at this time, hangover free. As I opened the door to the cool 21 degrees, I could hear the birds singing and the bats
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