The Egotistical Sickness of Inferiority – Eve M.
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1926, a tour of Europe. Eve M. didn't wait for the border to cross into intoxication; she ordered an Orange Blossom and suddenly became "five foot two, eyes of blue, and utterly adorable." For Eve, alcohol was the only way to escape a "sick ego" and the hollow feeling of being a "sitting duck" for the illness. She describes a life of paradox: the crushing inferiority of a girl who hated her Roman nose and towering height, balanced against a sudden, arrogant superiority when she looked at a roommate and decided she "deserved better."
The wreckage followed: expulsion from college, a failed acting career fueled by a need for "name in lights," and a marriage to a kindred spirit who drank just as hard. She recalls the grit of the lean years—squeezing money for the grocer while prioritizing the bottle and placing the burden of childcare on her son. It took a note with pansies on the front from an 87-year-old mother-in-law to break the denial. Through a Higher Power, Eve moved from a "fee...
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