Relinquishing the Bottle: How Good Not Drinking Alcohol Feels

Collage from photographs by Plotr Miazga and Catherine McMahon

Now sober, an alchoholic shares the life benefits of giving up alcohol

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I’ve always hated being the butt-end of a joke. Pranks were never my thing. April Fool’s Day is by far my least favorite holiday. So naturally, I was angry when I found out I was being duped. Something I thought of as fun was actually destroying me.
I had become an alcoholic.

When I finally got sober, I realized what