Realizing how much she resented her child every time he cried for taking her away from her whiskey and her Marlboros and her Walkman, was what made her understand that she had to get sober.

Talking about addiction, recovery, and writing with David Carr, Mary Karr, Alan Kaufman, and Elizabeth Wurtzel by Miranda Popkey

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