I’ve been many things in this life, a bestselling author, a successful IT entrepreneur, a
consultant to the government, an alcoholic, a junkie, a mother and a criminal….

(I said I’ve been many things, I didn’t say they were all good.)

But today, I sit at the lowest point in my life.

(clean sober and ethical for 16yrs by the way)

This isn’t something I normally talk about openly.

My own family knows none of this…They wouldn’t help me and it would give them more reasons to dislike me, not that they need actual reasons. I’m just reluctant to offer them any voluntarily.

But for you, I’m flinging the doors wide open on these deeply private matters because I can offer you a view of our country that most voters never get to see…..how it looks from the bottom.
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