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Hi sober Twitter! Allow me to be That Person for a minute and remind you that this weird new Susan Orlean trend aside, you are FAR from the only one not drinking your way through a really tough time. We are legion. (I don’t fully know what ‘legion’ means, but I know we are it.)
We would still be six months into a pandemic if you were drinking. So it’s just as well that you’re not, because if you’re anything like me, 2020 has been *more than enough* without adding on a relapse into crippling addiction.
Things are outright GAUDILY bad on all fronts. We are in a Trumpishly tacky period of misery. But you’re still sober. You’re actually doing it. I shudder to think how much worse my addict self would be handling all this.
Not that my sober self has exactly been rocking it. (At all.) But at least I’m looking straight at my actual fears, which means now and then I hit on real ways to tame them. Drinking, I’d only be looking at my addict fears/shame. I’d never get past that layer.
Anyway, carry on knowing you have lots of company, and we are DOING this fucking thing and we’re going to be okay. Big 
to all.
to all.
