Drug Addict Peer Review by Delaney, Margaret https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n Please add your story for others to review. Once you have added yours, read through the others and make sure to comment on at least 5 stories. Don't forget to add your name to your comments. en-us 2020-12-15 12:19:43 UTC 2020-12-15 19:03:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Alec Hall https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021336971 Alec Hall is a 16-year-old boy. He currently attends Westover High School in Westover, Delaware. He has been addicted to alcohol products since he was 14 years old. Before then, he was well-liked, had a lot of friends, and was on the National Junior Honor Society in school. Now, he’s completely opposite just because of one 20-year old lady who offered him out at the Weston One Hotel in Palm Shores because she thought he was cool while he was there for his 8th grade dance.  He finally agreed to her explanation about alcohol after several attempts and now drinks 3 bottles of liquor a day (one at each meal) in their apartment.  That is way too much alcohol for his age, even now. It’s also mind blowing that he found a way to escape from his parent’s “harsh” treatment. No one understands why he would want to leave that big beachside house in South Beach. Back to his girlfriend, she told him that alcohol stimulates the  body to work hard as well as losing weight. However, the exact opposite happened. His speech is bad, he has no friends anymore, and has lots of vision problems. As a result, his grades are much worse and he has needed to visit the guidance counselor many times. Yes, he has been in the small Westover jail cell over 100 times in the past few years just because of the Westover Police Station being directly behind the school and him being too young to drink. Those officers know him very well. They even say that next year, if he keeps drinking, he will go to court in Harriston, the capital of the Ultimate Driving Universe. When I tested his alcohol level, it was 0.12. That is more than 3 tenths too much.  Furthermore, Hall and his girlfriend are very bankrupt after spending money on so much vodka to drink at the local BBQ and foot massage as well as getting fined after numerous DUI attempts at the Kensington Go Kart Fun Center. It’s really sad that they don’t get how much go-karts are good for families and car shows in the community; they just want to destroy it. Overall, drinking alcohol has played a big role in Alec Hall’s life. It made him move away from his parents, get bad grades in school, and take part in more altercations. His guidance counselor does not think he will ever be accepted into a college, but will he recover as he moves through high school? Who knows?]]> 2020-12-15 18:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021336971 Cora lindsaybaradziej https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021338935 2020-12-15 18:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021338935 Jesse F- There once was a man named 🤬 who was 20 years old who lived in Green Bay Wisconsin. he was in his third year of college and was working a dreadful job at burger king. 🤬 was addicted to meth. Although he was only making 10 dollars an hour he still found a way to support his dirty habit. 🤬 went from a young man with a bright future to man who was depressed and lonely. You may ask how this all started, well this started one dark night when 🤬 was at a college party with all his friends. 🤬 was approached by one of his close friends and told that he should come with them because they were going to do something really fun. 🤬 was really excited and interested to what his friends where taking him to do. Well it turns out 🤬 was convinced by his dearest friend to try methphetmine. Than it took off from there, after just one try 🤬 was hooked and need the drugs just to function in life. The drugs started to take an impact on 🤬 as he started to notice malnutrition, weight loss, severe tooth decay and disorientation. About once a week 🤬 would buy an ace of meth from his dealer and usually end of snorting or injecting just enough to keep him going each day. 🤬 died 6 months later from an overdose on methphetmine. Hopefully 🤬's story will tell you to stay away from drugs and that your only get one life so you shouldn't mess it up. https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021339692 2020-12-15 18:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021339692 rileybass https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021340640 2020-12-15 18:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021340640 oxy user- delilah https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021343344 "And the Badgers score! Oh- wait, it looks like a teammate has slipped! Number 42, are you alright? Someone get a gurney, she's injured! Delilah! Delilah!!"
Delilah opens her eyes to realize she's the last one in her biology teachers lecture hall. "Delilah, are you okay?" her professor inquires. Delilah, still groggy, replies "yes, yes, I'm fine...". The professor sits down in the empty seat next to her; "I've noticed you've been struggling to complete assignments in my class, I've looked at your grades and they're slipping. Is something going on that you'd like to talk about?" Delilah reflects for a moment, wondering if this could be the moment she finally asks for the help she knows she needs. "No, I'm okay, just adjusting to the new school year", her fear overtook her again. She packs up her scattered books and walks out of the hall. The professor remains suspicious.
As Delilah walked across campus, she got a phone call. It was her boyfriend Matt. She hesitated for a second then pressed decline. She couldn't handle talking to him right now. She got back to her dorm room and slumped onto her bed. Her eyes immediately move to see the bottle of Oxycontin standing on the counter. Her roommate wouldn't be back for another hour. She thought to herself... "she won't know if I take some now, right? The high will pass before she gets back." She walks to the counter and opens the cap. A small part of her screams and begs to her not to take it. The bigger and more powerful part of her overtakes her conscience and she reaches into the bottle and grabs two pills.
An hour later, Delilah wakes up to her roommate vigorously shaking her shoulder, praying that today wasn't the day. She rubs her eyes and pushes her roommate away to reach for the trash can. She vomits into the trash can, but also all over her clothes and bed. Delilah is lucky that her roommate, Jasmine, was blessed with incredible patience. Jasmine helps Delilah out of bed and gets her ready for a shower. Delilah heads to the communal showers in their dorm as Jasmine rips the sheets off the vomit covered bed. Someone knocks at the door while Delilah is gone and Jasmine answers it. It was Matt, Delilah's boyfriend, there for a surprise visit! He immediately smells the vomit and Jasmine lies, saying that Delilah caught a stomach bug. She remembered Delilah telling her that Matt didn't know about her addiction despite being with her for two years. They had first started dating a few months before she left for college and then once she was in New York it was easy to hide from him. She just doesn't want this to affect him as well.
After about 15 minutes, Delilah arrives back in the room, clean but still feeling miserable. Apparently the shower doesn't clean addiction away. She sees Matt and he sees her and they make eye contact. Delilah fears that she might be hallucinating and tries to remember reading the side effects on the oxycontin bottle. Matt smiles and hugs her and Delilah desperately looks at Jasmine for help. Jasmine frowns and shrugs.
After catching up, Delilah tries to discern whether it would be a good time to tell the truth. She imagines what Jasmine would say, "maybe him coming here is a sign that you need to come clean." Jasmine would like to not be the only one who has to deal with Delilah's addiction, but she also genuinely wants her to get help. Delilah's two consciences start to fight once again. "He needs to know Delilah. This could be your way out!" rebutted with "he doesn't need to know! Delilah is an independent woman who doesn't need to rely on Matt. Besides, this would just be a greater burden to him. No point of doing that." Delilah decides to take control for once in her life. "Matt... I need to tell you something, and I don't know how you're going to react."
]]> 2020-12-15 18:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021343344 https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021346983 2020-12-15 18:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021346983 Jerry's Alcohol Addiction - Nick Custer https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021347496 This is Jerry, a 24 year-old male who can’t quite seem to stop drinking. Jerry’s been drinking since the age of 14, and ten years later he is still addicted. When he was 14, he had an abusive mother, and they always got into fights. His father was never home, always out with his friends. He was neglected… After Jerry and his mother stopped arguing, she would always grab a beer out of the fridge and drink the rest of the night. When Jerry couldn’t handle it anymore, he resulted in drinking to stop him from crying night and day. 
He started drinking occasionally, about once a week. After about a month, Jerry’s school found out and notified his parents. When his parents got the phone call, they hit Jerry repeatedly and he found bruises all over his body: some red, some black and blue. Four years later, Jerry had gone all the way up to his final year of high school, but then dropped out when he couldn’t handle the pressure anymore. 
By that time, his father was still gone and his mother passed away from a heart attack. Then, he started drinking almost every day. Some nights Jerry would pass out on the couch, others he would fall and hurt himself. Jerry could barely live considering he spent most of the money he made from Burger King on alcohol. Some nights Jerry would even go on a ride, while drunk… He would do that only occasionally, and usually only go out for 10 minutes, but clearly ten minutes was all he needed… When he was going out to the store when he ran out of alcohol, he hit a driver and paralyzed him for life. Jerry got arrested on the spot. 
He was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Jerry was so lonely and so drunk, all he thought of was suicide. This was rock bottom for him. Jerry would bang his head against the cold steel of the bars each day in that prison. Six years later, Jerry has lessened his drinking, especially because he couldn’t for the past six years. He went out and found some friends, usually only drinking about once a month now. Now that his life is much better, he sits on the couch and watches TV, holding a coke in his hand. Boom, boom, he hears from the door. “Who is it,” Jerry asks. “Your father”.
]]> 2020-12-15 18:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021347496 Oxycontin User Adam https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021347599 2020-12-15 18:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021347599 Bob Smith https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021348097 Hi im Bob Smith im here to tell you my story. I am a 22 year old male. At the time I lived with my mom and couldn't get a job because I was unstable and had no motivation to do anything. I was addicted to 🤬 for about 2 years. I dropped out of highschool because of it and im still getting effected by it. The way I started I was at a party my senior year and my friend told me to try it and there were so many people watching and I didn't want to chicken out so I snorted some and I got addicted right away. I  lost so much weight and it was really hard mentally. I lost all of my friends because all I cared about was 🤬. All I did was ask my mom for money all the time and I wouldn't stop until she said yes. I used it anywhere I could I usually couldn't wait. When my mom found 🤬 in my room she kicked me out of the house and I was homeless for about a month thats when I hit rock bottom I started using it more often and even stole so i would have money for it. Than one day I just remember doing more than I would normally and next thing I know i was in a hospital bed. My mom found me passed out next to where I was living because I overdosed. She called an ambulance and they took me to the hospital after that I went to rehab and I have been sober for almost a year now.]]> 2020-12-15 18:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021348097 Adam Oxycontin addict https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021348430 2020-12-15 18:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021348430 Ben https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021349837 Ben is a 35 year old man from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Ben has a doctorate in aerospace engineering and now works at NASA and lives in Florida. He´s been working at NASA since he was 28, and because he is now so far away from his family, he developed a anxiety disorder. He rarely has time to visit his family at all because of how far away from home he is and how secretive his work is. His work is top secret because America and Russia are in another space race, but instead of venturing to the moon, its to set up a working colony on mars. It has been called the Space Race Part Two. Part of Ben´s job is to design and develop new technologies that function on in the martian environment. Him and others need to figure out how to design a working shelter with a supply of oxygen, as well as plants and ways to farm on mars in order to feed the Astronauts. A lot of pressure and stress is put on Ben and his peers, which is added on top of Ben´s diagnosed anxiety. But, because of all of these new factors from his job, Ben´s anxiety has worsened. Once he had enough free time off work, he went to the closest doctors office and made an appointment. The doctors evaluated Ben and discovered he has severe anxiety, and gave him a prescription to treat it. Once it was ready, Ben went to the closet pharmacy to pick it up. The drug he was prescribed was Xanax. Ben has never taken a prescription medicine like this before. Although it is addictive, if taken in the prescribed amounts, it will effectively treat anxiety disorders. He took the Xanax pills orally like intended for the first few weeks. The drug made him feel better and allowed him to have a couple breakthroughs in his research at NASA. He figured out a method to have astronauts leave and enter the shelter on mars without having any of the much needed oxygen escape. Another being how to protects the astronauts from the suns radiation since Mars doesn't have an ozone layer or as dense of an atmosphere as Earth. However over time, the Xanax didn't seem to be working anymore. He built up a tolerance without knowing it. Instead of consulting a doctor on what to do or how to have the Xanax work again, he tried to take it in larger quantities. This seemed to do the trick and he did it for awhile. Once he ran out of pills and needed more, he realized he needed them badly or he would be having side effects from withdraw. He developed an addiction. He spent a large portion on his pay check on Xanax and getting more from pharmacies. Over the course of a year he would spend about $30,000 dollars just on Xanax. Roughly a third of his yearly salary. The drug made him show up later to work, not be as present when discussing or coming up with designs and prototypes, and some days he would call in sick from work because of the physical affects of the drug he experienced. He would occasionally have hallucinations, always be tired and drowsy, struggled sleeping, and had lots of trouble concentrating. On top of this he began to experience more sadness and feelings of hopelessness. Ben also had an underlying case of depression, which only got worse because of the Xanax. At first he was taking three doses a day as prescribed, but now he saw himself topping six or seven doses. Ben has lost all contact with his family and pushed them out of his life.Ben has never taken a prescription medicine like this before. He got fired from NASA and his new income came from selling some of his Xanax for a higher cost than what it was worth in order to obtain more. He became a drug dealer and got in legal trouble and served jail time. While in jail, he was able to get help from a part of the prison that dealt with drug abuse cases and they tried to treat Ben. The treatment proved to be successful but unfortunately, the Xanax caused Ben's brain to forget how to operate and violent mood swings. After a couple years Ben died as a result of his Xanax abuse at 43.]]> 2020-12-15 18:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021349837 John smith heroin addict story https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021354833 2020-12-15 18:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021354833 Benicio Ortiz- Marvin Kennards Football loss https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021374974 Marvins Fame turns into Something Lame
The next big thing! Marvin Kennards was an insane freak of nature, standing at 6, 4, 210, all muscle, 5 star running back heading into Ohio State. This man was something never seen before, he could play running back and wide receiver! He could not be stopped, he was unpredictable!!! He had a life everyone dreamed of and all of the friends, until he went to a party and let all the fame and money get to him…
“Marvin, Wake up” said his mom, “You have the season opener tomorrow, you have to get ready”. “Calm down, I will work this morning but I have plans tonight.” Marvin exclaimed. 
“What pans?” said mom, “Oh nothing big just a gathering with people” Marvin said. 
Little did the mom know that this was gonna change Marvins life forever…
“Time to get this work in, and then we are partying hard tonight!” 
“You Bet Marvin, tonight finna be a movie! I heard there is gonna be a mainstream rapper there.” Said Kenny.
“Please, if its not the rapper Nav or someone like Kanye West then its not good.” Marvin said
“Man, who cares what rapper it is, its still a rapper.” Kenny exclaimed
“True, true” Marvin said
The football team, Kenny, and Marvin played their hearts out at practice. It was the practice squad against the starters. Suddenly, on one play the backup quarterback Drake was about to pass to the backup wide receiver Will but Marvin was all on that. He trucked Will making the ball fly out of his hands stopping what could have been a touchdown. The starters were hyped as they had never seen such a harder hit but they looked back to see Marvin shaken up more than Will.
“You alright Marv?” said the starting tight end Ron.
“Yea, I'm alright, my leg just feels a little wei…”
“Your leg doesn't look that good, that looks broken” said Ron
“Oh don't worry I know what to do!” Said Kenny
Kenny went up to Marvin and stretched out his leg and suddenly popped it back into place.
“Your telling me people can be injured a second and then all good a minute later?!” said Will
“My dad taught me, he said that this might happen to someone” Kenny said comically 
“That was a close one, god bless Kenny” Marvin said thankfully, “That could have been a major set back”
After practice was over Marvins legs was hurting an unusual amount because the pain had not kicked in when it was injured but just now kicked in.
“Kenny, we got to party hard tonight man, my leg kills I need some fun” Marvin said
“Oh yeah but we got to be careful and try not to drink” Kenny exclaimed.
The two came up to the house the party was at and it was a huge house in a private development.
“This partys insane!” yelled Marvin
“NO way, its NAV” said Kenny
They went up to Nav and he offered them some drinks and some food.
Little did they know that the food was edible marijuana infused.
It all happened in a flash, literally and lets just say his football dreams are gone and so are a few weeks of his life…
He ended up being influenced by the other jail inmates and soon ended up on the streets, as for Kenny, he ended up smoking all his money away and moved on to other drugs ending up in rehab.

]]> 2020-12-15 18:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021374974 Owen Matthews https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021376215 Owen Matthews was a thirty-eight-year-old male and was happily married to his wife Victoria. He the father of three children, Julianna, Chris, and Spencer. His life was great. He was a Harvard Law graduate and was pursuing his dream of becoming the greatest lawyer in New York City. Owen was very wealthy. He was a Medical Lawyer and had a career-changing case. If he won, he would get a huge promotion. He found out his client was guilty which made his job ten times harder. He was very stressed out one night so he went to the bar. Ever since that one night, he went to the same bar every day after work and got drunk, sometimes even in the day. Owen began to behave suspiciously. He would always sneak out, yell at his wife, and would constantly be exhausted. Victoria became worried about Owen. She knew he was lying to her, so one night she waited up for him. When Owen arrived at their home, Victoria confronted him about how he was never home and about his new behaviors. Little did they both know, their lives would never be the same. Owen was furious about all of the accusations she made. Owen got angry and started to verbally abuse her. Once Victoria started crying, the kids woke up and watched the fight. Then Owen hit her and went to bed. The next morning, he woke up and Victoria and the kids were gone. Owen went to the kitchen and that’s when he found his wife’s wedding ring and a note on the counter. Owen had nobody he cared about in his life left. His mother had died when he was young, and his father was in a nursing home suffering from dementia. Owen did not show up for work the next day. He went to the bar and got wasted. When he finally did go to work, it was to quit. Owen was completely ruining his life. He mentally felt like he had nothing left to live for, but alcohol is what set him free. He was then arrested for starting a bar fight. The police order him to see a therapist where he found out he was suffering from depression. He was issued medication, but never took it. Four years later he was living in his car, the only thing he owned. His wife won the divorce case two years prior to this time and got full custody of his children. He was running low on money, so he sold his home. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with stage four liver cancer. Owen had no money, no job, no family, and now was slowly dying. Any money he could make was spent on Liquor. He eventually sold his car and was homeless. One morning he woke up in the hospital because some random man found him unconscious in the park. Owen realized that he had to try and get better. The man who saved him was named Jason, and he agreed to help him. Owen began chemotherapy and for awhile he was getting better. Jason became a close friend to Owen and they built a nice relationship. Jason helped him find a new place to live for when he could leave the hospital. Owen was still suffering from cancer but sobered up. After years of not seeing them, Owen was able to see his children one more time. When the time came for them to visit, only Julianna and Spencer were there. On that day he had found out that Chris had died due to a car accident. This set Owen over the edge. The next day he was let out of the hospital and relapsed. Owen hadn’t felt emotional pain like this since his mother had died. He had completely given up on life. Owen went home and went to his kitchen to grab a knife, and three days later Jason found him dead in his apartment.

]]> 2020-12-15 18:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021376215 Bobby Chewy jzamichieli33313 https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021377313 Bobby Chewy was a teacher at Phoenix High School.  He was driving home one day when a drunk driver smashed into his and he was put in the ICU.  while in the ICU he was prescribed Oxycontin for a week after he was let out of the hospital.  While on the painkillers he took one more than he was supposed one day and was in pain so much the next day he called the doctor saying he lost 5 and that he needed them. The doctor trusting Bobby gave him the five and Bobby was officially hooked.
It was a slippery slope from there.  He spent an enormous amount of cash to get the drugs illegally after his doctor stopped giving him the prescription.  His wife tried but eventually left him and took the children.  He went to great lengths to get his oxy’s and even sold his left pinky toe.  However, there was a beacon of hope; his mom.  Momma Chewy was able to rehabilitate him. And he now work a mailman trying to get his teaching license back.  The moral of the story is to never turn your back on family.

]]> 2020-12-15 18:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021377313 elijah https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021380146 This is the story of a boy in Queens, New York, Elijah, a 19-year-old who had just graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA. A few months later Elijah starts working at Burger King during weekdays from 9:am to 8:pm and gets paid every two weeks. During work Elijah makes one new friend named Jesus, everyone at work knew jesus was a “bad kid” he likes doing drugs and always came late to work as time goes by Jesus and Elijah start getting closer and closer by June they start hanging out mostly everyday after work one day Jesus invites Elijah to come with his friends and hang out, they start watching TV and they take out 🤬 Jesus asks Elijah if he wants some coccaine in Elijah’s mind he’s thinking it’s a bad idea and can cause consequences to your body but doesn’t wanna seem “boring” in front of Jesus and his friends so he inhales it they chill after 20 minutes and Jesus drops off Elijah as he gets home Elijah’s mom was worry because he got home at 12:30 am and he never gets home that late but she lets it passed just this time as the year passes Elijah becomes addicted to 🤬 he starts going to Jesus house every day just to do 🤬. As Elijah starts to get addicted to he arrives at work late now and starts having white powder around his nostrils, Elijah’s family start to notice he comes home high and goes straight to his room. For the next few weeks, his mom tries to talk to him about it because he rejected college applications and Elijah tries to ignore the conversation but his mom gets mad so he just said “I don’t feel like going anymore to college” his mom was surprised because as soon as he got out of high school he wanted to move out and have a job the paid him good but his mom tells him to sit with her to talk about something she starts telling him the long term consequences of 🤬 and how it can mess up your life he rejects his mom help and leaves the house to live on his own.]]> 2020-12-15 18:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021380146 Katherine Pearson https://padlet.com/mdelaney32/7qdfex45md5pc12n/wish/1021482385 Katherine Pearson is a 24 year old female finishing up her degree in Engineering with three job offers behind her. Katherine grew up in a stable community and family of four. Growing up Katherine saw the lives of her parents and admired them because even though they had disagreements, they never gave up on eachother. John and Mary Pearson were Katherine’s definition of true love and the reason she always believed in it. Some would say Katherine is living the dream life, she is becoming successful, she has a loving and supporting husband, Vitaly, and she’s happy with her true love and true passion. Katherine loved her perfect life. But Katherine hasn’t been feeling well recently, every morning she gets nauseous and starts vomiting during her first two classes. Concerned, Katherine went to the doctor just to find out she was pregnant. Hearing this news Katherine bursts up with joy! The last thing she wanted for her life to be perfect has become a reality! “I’m gonna be a MOM!” Katherine jumps into her car to rush over to the house and tell Vitaly the wonderful news. Katherine gets to the house and runs to Vitaly and holds up a onesie that says “Mommy’s my favorite but daddy is cool too.” Looking at the expression on Vitaly’s face, it was not the one Katherine was expecting. “We’re pregnant.” Vitaly was tired of it. Four years of marriage Vitaly never voiced his opinion, but he finally decided to. “I never wanted kids and I’m tired enough supporting your dreams.” Soon enough Katherine’s “true love” was gone and her idea of her perfect life was broken without him. Katherine began questioning life, “Why haven’t I noticed the suitcases before?” 
“Has my whole life been a lie?”
“Are my parents even happy?”
Katherine was devastated. Now a single mom, Katherine tried to continue life by getting a small part time job at a bar to support her until she finishes her education. Everynight Katherine felt so much pain it was unbearable. Surrounded by all this alcohol every night she sees strangers bury their pain, and they seem better. Little by little she experimented, she made one drink for a customer, then one for herself. Katherine felt a high that pushed back the pain, and she loved that high. Little did she know she couldn’t stop. Every night she would add more and more alcohol. Who would’ve thought it started from 2 shots of vodka, for a short and skinny 24 year old. Katherine slowly started flunking her final classes, and slowly losing her job offers. In the blink of an eye, eight months flew by, and Katherine gave birth to John Jr. Katerine couldn’t wait to take Johnny Jr. home until the doctors informed her that they are going to have to stay longer because her child has FASDs (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders). Knowing that her baby would suffer their whole life with health issues, and have to grow up without a father because of her, Katherine was determined to stop drinking and get her life on track. Katherine decided to sober up and get a real job because she was fired from the bar for stealing alcohol, but before that Katherine decided to check herself into a Rehabilitation facility. Even though it was hard to leave her newborn for 90 days, she knew it was the best decision. Ten years later… Katherine is ten years strong and sober with a new husband and 3 kids. Katherine is genuinely happy. 
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