Dallas author Sarah Hepola’s confessions of a lucky but miserable person at a rather unlucky time

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The impossible year: Confessions of a lucky but miserable person at a rather unlucky time

Sarah Hepola is a Dallas-based author and the creator of the Texas Monthly podcast, "America's Girls," a history of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.I had a hard year in 2021. A lot of people had it harder, a fact I reminded myself of constantly.

“A lot of people are struggling,” they often said, and it was meant to be grounding. It was meant to remind me I was not alone. One more wounded soldier in the vast limping army. But I would start doubling back, embarrassed not to have earned my place. Then my friends would start scrambling to validate my particular suffering. And we’d fall into this gentle tug of war that made me sadder, so I didn’t talk to people much. I flaked on lunch dates. I deleted my dating apps.

Author Sarah Hepola sat in her Dallas home on May 20, 2015, about a month before the publication of her memoir, “Blackout.” The memoir describes her drinking problem and her hard-won recovery. “Would you like a Buddha?” she asked as we parted, pulling out a chubby golden trinket from her purse.

 

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