Wednesday, August 16, 2017

101.  Hopeless?
Daphne called me to say she’d found out which one of her nieces stole her painkillers.
“She confessed?” I asked.
“After she OD’d and was revived,” Daphne said. “Going to the hospital turned out to be a blessing in disguise. One of the nurses told us she was a crack addict and a prostitute by the time she was fifteen. You know the story, in and out of detention, school dropout. She got clean when she was twenty, got a GED at twenty-three, and graduated nursing school before she turned thirty. You know she didn’t have to share any of that with us, but she did.”
“How’d your niece react?”
I could almost hear Daphne roll her eyes. “She was skeptical, but at least she listened. I think she got the idea there’s no such thing as a hopeless addict.”

Today I will remember there’s no such thing as a hopeless addict.

Time for a Change ©2017 by Ken Montrose
Time for a Change is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.
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