In our Final Word Department, the author reflects about the expectations that can come with sobriety … if  I stay sober for a year, will my “after” photo be a vision of serenity … not. He calls longtime sobriety the “After life,” a treasured place but also undefinable in many ways.  “And so it goes. Here I am, well into the After life, still sober, still inching along – and still no photo to authoritatively hold up there beside my Before. Everything keeps moving, changing. Different vantage points, different lighting. Serenity is a moving target.”
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