Things You Only Know If You’re Long-Term Sober

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As DryJanuary comes to an end tonight, we're resharing this moving piece 'Things You Only Know If You’re Long-Term Sober'

I never meant to get sober. That’s not to say I never thought about it. I dreamed about it in the same way one might about winning the lottery or being the woman to tame Leonardo DiCaprio, a nice fantasy, but highly unlikely to ever happen. And yet, it did and here we are; I am a sober person.

It took me a while to grasp that people who are only entertaining when you or they are drunk are not that entertaining. I thought drink gave me a shortcut to being smart, funny, sexy, spontaneous, dazzlingly interesting – but it only took me further and further away.

 

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