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Vodka and I have never been very good friends. From the first time I dry-heaved through an entire cup sans chaser (sometime too early in my adolescence to be even remotely appropriate) I knew that anytime vodka came on the scene there would be trouble. We managed to patch things up on a few occasions- once enough time had passed for me to forget how I had been wronged- but somehow the outcome was always the same: me draped over the toilet willing the last few hours to miraculously reverse themselves. Not a pretty picture.
What are these things we were told to want, expected to pursue? What are these things we were told would make us happy? 1. Love 2. Success 3. Freedom. I might as well quote The Declaration of Independence: we expect “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” but our generation feels that love is not to be possessed, nor can it ever make our lives more real; success is undefined and relative; and freedom: we always have less than we’d like.
As a companion for my husband’s grandmother, I learn more than I bargained for about persistence and who we all are, really.
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