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A little bit about my alcohol use

I wrote this essay for Longreads a few years ago and it sums up pretty well what the end of my drinking was like.

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Katie MacBride
Aug 09, 2024
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They found me outside my cubicle, flat on the ground, wearing my winter coat, with my purse slung over my shoulder. I had worked there less than two months. I took the position because, six months after graduating college, I still didn’t have a “real” job, no matter how much I tried to convince myself that sporadic babysitting gigs amounted to what was listed on my resume as “professional nanny.”

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