Is Straight Edge Still Sober?
Sober is punk. Or is it?
Interview With a 54-Year-Old Sober Person: Dionne Ford
“I started drinking when I left home my junior year of high school for an exchange program, and by the time I was in my final year of college, I’d been arrested twice and tried to kill myself - drinking was the common denominator. A priest, a counselor, and a boyfriend recommended I try AA, and I’m glad I did.”
Family Resemblance
“The first time I got drunk as a teenager in New Jersey, I got very drunk. I threw up red Gatorade that my mother thought was blood. The next day she told me that I could not drink, in a rare tone she had that I understood as “do not fuck with this.”
Interview With a 72-Year-Old Sober Person: Martha Frankel
“I’ve learned how to leave parties earlier than I used to.“
Interview With an 80-Year-Old Sober Person: Sydney Lea
“I really don’t think much about death unless I stop living my life, as my recovery community advises, a day at a time. “