A decade without a drink · eieio.games

A decade ago I was almost dead. Now I'm here.

That's a long time Dec 17, 2024 This is a post about addiction and recovery. It is way outside my ‘whimsical games’ lane and I completely understand if you’d like to skip it. I have no plans to write about this again, and I promise I will be back to building nonsense soon. That’s a decade without a drink for me. After I quit I was hungry for stories. So today I’d like to share my own. Let’s start at the end I’m not actually sure that today is the day. It could be the 16th or the 18th. What I know is that late in December 2014, cops showed up at my door. The few people still in my…

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