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This week\u2019s Sasha meets the award winning UK writer Louisa young, who\u2019s book You Left Early accounts her relationship with Robert Lockhart, an extremely talented and prolific composer from Wigan, who battled with alcohol addiction throughout his life. 

 Loving an addict can be incredibly difficult thing to do. It's a relationship that is often rampant with deceit & disappointment, and sadly more often that not, the addiction comes out on top. Louisa is a hugely empathetic person, and this is extremely prevalent in how she views addiction and the addict themselves. \u201cThe thing about an addict is, it may not be their fault that they\u2019re and addict. I don\u2019t believe it is their fault. They didn\u2019t ask for the particular set-up of genes and experience and psychology, and everything that adds up to a person being addictive.\u201d Louisa and Robert both struggled through the addiction and with an incredible amount of hard work, he was able to take command of his sobriety. 

Although sober, years of heavy alcohol abuse had left robert extremely ill. He was diagnosed with throat cancer, and managed to survive it. \u201cHe really suffered but he was a very battered but gallant, marvelous man.Then after all that, and all those things which could have killed him, he actually died by accident.\u201d Their love story is one that seems desperately unfair, and Louisa speaks about this in great detail during the interview. She also puts a huge emphasis on how although Robert is no longer living, she does still consider him a huge part of her life presently. \u2018I miss him everyday. I am incredibly happy not to be living with alcoholism in my everyday life. Even an alcoholic in recovery, it\u2019s still a very hard full time job, both for the addict and for the people closest to them\u201d

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