Chapter 9What came next was Angela getting sober. Many other things happened to Angela before she crashed into her rock bottom and survived the physical withdrawal, but mostly what she needed as a catalyst was to land at the bottom of the emotional abyss. People who get clean and sober do so on only one condition; when standing at the precipice of complete destruction or change, they choose change. Some choose because of religious conviction, some because the law has demanded sobriety of them, others because they do not wish to harm their families any longer. Angela did not know why she chose change. She had none of those reasons. She thought it might have been just the simplicity of the choice between change or death. She knew only that in her darkest hour, during a visit from a faraway f
