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Submitted to Contest #179
This story contains content related to (victory over) substance addiction and sexual abuse. ********************************************************************Once the holiday hoopla was over, I hung out around my back door firepit, feeding the flames with fallen pine boughs and sipping on a bottle of bourbon I kept tucked in my breast pocket. Between that and the fire, I didn’t seem to feel the cold front that was promising a storm later in the day.I shook my head at the bottle in my hand. I knew it wasn’t a great habit, but I had my reaso...
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