There is a very specific hour of the day that belongs to the sober person. It’s somewhere between 5 and 7pm. The sun starts doing that thing where everything goes warm and gold. Your neighbors are pouring something cold on their back porches. The bar down the street is an hour deep into happy hour. Every restaurant on the block is doing the low lighting and the clinking glasses and the ritual. For a lot of people in recovery, this is the hardest hour of the day. It’s the hour that used to mean something. It’s the hour that your body still remembers, even when your brain has moved on. It’s the hour that fills with a low hum of “I used to.” And it has been, historically, one of the most dangerous hours in a sober person’s day, because not having something to do with your hands at 6pm is how ...
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