Solvent

Cara stumbled in.  I’d never seen her so worn down. “You sober?” I asked.

“I am,” she said, saying nothing more.  Later in the meeting, the chairman asked if anyone had made it through their first 24 hours sober. Cara and another woman got their white keytags. 

Alcohol is a solvent. For some it only dissolves tension and a little inhibition.  For others, alcohol is harsher. Looking at Cara, I realized it had removed a layer of arrogance. Alcohol had also taken away her energy, eaten away at her marriage, and dissolved much of the good will she’d built up over all the years she’d been sober.

Today I’ll remember alcohol is a solvent.

Dogged Determination ©2018 & 2019 by Ken Montrose

Dogged Determination is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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