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My Sad, Bad Past No Longer Defines Me, Thanks to Recovery
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When I took my first breath in this world, it was while being placed into the arms of a child herself. A drug-addicted and alcoholic mother at the age of just 16 and, needless to say, my mother was a very reckless, sad, incapable parent.