Misophonia
By Tabitha Payne
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When you’re desperate, you’ll try anything once. So there I was, sitting in a folding chair around a table in a church basement with a bunch of alcoholics. I think every adult who’s been through the shitter and back has found themselves at an AA meeting at least once. Most of us don’t stay. We buck up, get jobs, pay our bills, and start drinking like adults again. I was in quite a bind though so I was trying this on for size. To ensure I sat through the whole meeting, I tagged along with a friend of mine who had been successful in the program. She was my ride home. I wasn’t going anywhere.
It seemed all right. I was jubilantly conversing with the other losers around the table when a shimmery faced granola girl in cotton shorts sat down beside me. …
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