The Difference Between Believing in Higher Power and Trusting Him – Angie D.
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A barrio in Orange County, a childhood spent as a "young person in an old container," and a lifelong hunger for love that felt like a wounded animal wailing inside. Angie D. grew up in the shadow of "purple-lipped" women and a father who preferred his girlfriends to his children. She describes her early life as a series of dares and wreckage, from raising a nun's skirt to a stint in a girls' reformatory. For Angie, the bottle was the fuel for a pilot light that had been burning since birth.
She recounts the grit of her drinking years: the "train show" marriage to a heroin user, the blur of uppers and downers, and the degradation of being an unprotected woman in bars. The wreckage peaked in a filthy shack in Mira Loma, where she lived in agony and despair, eventually attempting suicide with sleeping pills. She describes the "ugly side" of the disease—the blood and screams she inflicted on her daughters. Only after hitting a pit of total loneliness did she find the "music" of the roo...
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