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My name is Kenny and I am an addict in recovery

My name is Kenny and I am an addict in recovery

My childhood was an unstable mix of living with family and in foster care. I started to experience homelessness and social exclusion from my teen years and first went in to rehab in my mid-20s. I have experienced long periods of sobriety, during which I would manage...

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My alcoholic Dad

My alcoholic Dad

Some of you may not have a clue what ‘recovery’ means. It has so many definitions, not just those found in your dusty copy of the Oxford Dictionary, but to anyone who has recovered from something. In layman’s terms (the terms I often rely on to understand something),...

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Orange is the new …

Orange is the new …

I love my family. I adore my parents. I was even a Daddy’s girl before I knew what was really going on. Something way too big for me to comprehend or understand. Baffling. As I grew up I soon learned why Mummy would get so upset, angry, fraught with tears. Sheer...

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