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Kim grew up in a \u201cbeautiful suburb\u201d as an only child of a \u201csevere\u201d alcoholic father. She says he was drunk daily. She remembers as a child telling her father that their lives would be okay if he didn\u2019t keep drinking. But in her early teens, she began drinking herself. Kim would steal booze from her friend\u2019s parents\u2019 liquor cabinet at a party; she became so intoxicated she couldn\u2019t go home. From that moment, she had a new favorite activity. It made her feel less uncomfortable in her own skin. It was a relief of emotion \u2013 and she kept chasing it. Soon she needed the alcohol just to have the courage to leave the house.