How Drinking Killed My Father — and a Part of Me

Years after he passed, dating an alcoholic made me sober in a way I never knew I needed

Freddy Jesse Izaguirre
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8 min readMar 20, 2020

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II met my partner on Instagram in the summer of 2018, after stumbling onto her profile through a…

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Freddy Jesse Izaguirre
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