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That's What They Said

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I've reprinted some alcoholism quotes before from   https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/alcoholism . I think it's worth passing on some more to save you from looking up this site for yourself. “I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.” ―  Dina Kucera,  Everything I Never Wanted to Be “Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see the need? A Christian counselor I saw for a while described such situations as, “a White Elephant everyone can see but no one wants to deal with; everyone ...