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Sobriety.
Sobriety is the deliberate choice to live without the anesthetic of alcohol or other substances. It is not the absence of a drink. It is the presence of the woman who would otherwise be erased by one.
From Aliette
I got sober in June of 2004. Two months later I passed the Florida Bar. Everything I have built — my marriage to my work, my motherhood, my businesses, my voice — sits on top of that one decision. I am not the cautionary tale; I am the boring, daily evidence that a woman can keep choosing herself for twenty-plus years. I speak about sobriety the way I speak about a legal practice: as a structure, not a personality trait. The hardest part was not stopping. The hardest part was staying when life finally got interesting enough to feel.
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