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Brian Comes Alive

Brian Comes Alive

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We’ve all chuckled at the theatrics of the stiff-legged subhumans in a zombie film. Brian was fried in a way that no Hollywood pathos I know of has successfully evoked.more

Rehab

Rehab

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I didn’t hear the backyard gate open or a greeting, if there was a greeting, until the stranger’s head was right next to mine, one eye closed. I smelled beer. “Well, looks like you’ve got yourself quite a project here.”more

A Pound of Flesh

A Pound of Flesh

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The physical metamorphosis of healing.more

Sparrows

Sparrows

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“Meanwhile I’m thinking about how this is what a rehabilitated heroin addict should look like. Not like me, or the others. Imi has a job, money, a fiancé. In short, a life. It’s all worked out for him. Of course, it all depends on your perspective. I’m alive, so if we look at it that way, it worked out for me too.”more

The Balboa AA Club

The Balboa AA Club

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“It seems that every time I drink I go to jail. You must tell me how to fix this,” he saidmore