Fast forward through the last week of work, meetings, parenting, adulting, sleeping, eating and reading every alcoholic to sober memoir I can get my hands on. I've been on the "pink cloud", as they call it in AA. I don't want a drink! I am starting to feel better! I feel free! My skin is less puffy! Then, on the way to my favorite meeting tonight, the 13yo and I have to stop for her Spanish class parent-teacher conference. I get the news: she's failing the class. Oh. In her defense, she struggles with learning and this is an advanced class. But as I sit there, listening to her kind teacher show me homework assignment after assignment that she simply has not completed and therefore has thwarted her ability to pass the class, I feel the old twinge rising. Twinge isn't the right word. Rage. Teeth-clenching, chest-tightening, eye-twitching rage. Rage at her for telling me she's been doing her homework. Rage at myself for a. believing her and b. being a shitt...
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