At Five Months Sober, Living in Gratitude

Jay Allen
4 min readOct 19, 2021

Keeping it is where the real work begins.

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Several weeks ago, I was driving to the store when I got a text from one of my daughters. I took a quick glance at it. Then I pulled over to the side of the road.

“Hey dad?” it started. “I’m really proud of you for quitting drinking.”

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