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Submitted to Contest #101
Sandy loved to drink until it became too painful. So she quit, again. She liked the way alcohol made her forget all her worries. It had not started out living in blackouts, but she graduated to them quickly the more she drank. Sandy had felt screwed out of life because of difficulties with jobs and men. Child Services had removed her children from her last home, so she was alone. She had lived a life of pain, mostly from not being able to give her children the simple things that life demanded. She went to a counselor after a hospital...
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