Ari

I hated the world.

I was mad at everything.

I was always like, I got two moms and they both don't like me.

Woe is me.

But as I grew up and as I met other people and friendships changed, dynamics changed, and I saw that it wasn't my fault, our conversations got less and less.

But while our conversations got less and less, for her, she blamed me.

So she let the entire family know that I was strung out and I was an addict and I was a thief, a liar, a home wrecker, a cheater, all these things that I'm not.

So I came, I think Easter two years ago, I came.

to see them, but I ended up getting food poisoning.

So I was at the hospital and I called her and I was like, hey, like, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me the past 12 hours.

I've been at the hospital.

I literally had the ambulance come pick me up.

Her first thought is why are you not, like, why didn't you call me sooner?

Like why, why not?

And I'm like, I literally, this is my first time being not hunched over, down bad, horrible.

That wasn't okay.

I was, now mind you,

I am California sober.

That's it.

That is literally it.