My mantra...
Whenever I had too much to drink, this was my mantra: "I'm fine." Teetering across pink granite in lake country, late at night: "I'm fine." Tossing off my high heels, after a gala awards night: "I'm fine." It was easy to say without slurring, and it was defiant.
It never changed.
Except I wasn't fine. Not even close. And it was beginning to look like I was not alone. As Wilder-Taylor said when I finally interviewed her: "Alcohol is glamorized in our society, and it's everywhere. You'd be surprised how many people are drinking during the day. And then we're shocked when some mother crashes her car with her kids in it?" Ann Dowsett Johnston Drink: The intimate Relationship between WOMEN and Alcohol
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