In Celebration of Impossible People

An excerpt from Julia Wertz's book on recovery and friendship.

In my early recovery, I'd sit in smoky Florida AA meetings and be deeply insecure that my drinking was relatively amateurish and not that much of a problem compared to practically everyone else in there. People in those rooms had some genuine devastating ordeals typical of the uniquely downtrodden: the foreclosed homes, the child custody battles, the pr…