When She Couldn’t Drink It Away

Holly Lovett* grew up in a loving family and never dreamed she could become an alcoholic. For her, that word — alcoholic — conjured visions of a friendless, homeless person. Or worse, a raging, violent drunk, like Holly’s granddaddy had been before he got sober.

“Drinking hadn’t affected my life that way,” Holly explains. “Sure, I’d missed some...

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