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"I had missed the moment. Maybe she'd been expecting it, who knows. I'd been seconds away; seconds, and a lifetime. I often think if I'd asked, now we'd have two kids and a house with no view, who knows."

"Alcoholics hate two things: the way things are and change."

Finishing Chapter 5 and I'm completely captivated.

"A year and a hald later, I was taking 55 of those pills a day. I weighed 128 pounds when I checked into Hazelden rehab in Minnesota, my life in ruins. I was in raw fear, certain I was going to die, having no idea what had happened to me. I wasn't trying to die; I was just trying to feel better."

"But addiction wakes up before you do, and it wants you alone."

"Given everything, there is no way I wouldn't change places with Craig, and David Pressman, and the guy in the gas station down the block- I'd change places with all of them in a minute, and forever, if only I could not be who I am...I would give it all up not to feel this way. I think about it all the time; it's no idlethought- it's a coldhearted fact."