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Submitted to Contest #79
“So why do you choose alcohol over me, Mom? Why have you always chosen alcohol over me?”“You’re my daughter. My baby!”It’s been ten years. Ten years of watching my mother slowly kill herself with alcohol. Every day is the same. She starts off sad begging for help, and out of nowhere it’s abusive. Never physically, but words and actions do hurt all the same. I’ve learned how to cope with it, it’s my every day life now. I just wish it wasn’t. It starts early in the morning. My mom wakes up and takes the dog for a walk, gets home and has a...
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