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Ask a Sober Lady

Katie MacBride

Questions, answers, conversations, and other musings about substance use and addiction recovery. Ask me something: [email protected]

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The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1888.

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