Buzzing Emotional Mess

Published: June 27, 2019, 6:20 p.m.

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Andrew is another member of the \\u201cDouble Winners\\u201d \\u2013 people who achieved sobriety through both Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. He comes from a divorce family, and was shuffled between both parents who made their dislike for one another very apparent to the children. Andrew notes his father is a psychiatrist. He blames that for his inability to feel comfortable among peers, unless he was drinking. By his own account, he was a \\u201cbuzzing, emotional mess.\\u201d At age 15, Andrew\\u2019s drinking had lead drug use, dropping out of school, getting kicked out the house and getting in trouble with the law.

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