Blackout_ Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget - Sarah Hepola
I’m in Paris on a magazine assignment, which is exactly as great as it sounds. I eat dinner at a
restaurant so fancy I have to keep resisting the urge to drop my fork just to see how fast someone will
pick it up. I’m drinking cognac—the booze of kings and rap stars—and I love how the snifter sinks
between the crooks of my fingers, amber liquid sloshing up the sides as I move it in a figure eight.
Like swirling the ocean in the palm of my hand.
I’m in Paris on a magazine assignment, which is exactly as great as it sounds. I eat dinner at a
restaurant so fancy I have to keep resisting the urge to drop my fork just to see how fast someone will
pick it up. I’m drinking cognac—the booze of kings and rap stars—and I love how the snifter sinks
between the crooks of my fingers, amber liquid sloshing up the sides as I move it in a figure eight.
Like swirling the ocean in the palm of my hand.
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02.06.2016
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eaten by a girl? At least two of my one-night stands began this way. Most of the others? It’s hard to remember how they began.
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- Page 3 and 4: Begin Reading Table of Contents New
- Page 5 and 6: PRELUDE
- Page 7 and 8: The guy isn’t bad-looking. Slight
- Page 9 and 10: WOMEN WHO DRINK I was 33, and lying
- Page 11 and 12: she did not get—but I’ve never
- Page 13 and 14: In my 20s, friends called with that
- Page 15 and 16: I discussed roofies with Aaron Whit
- Page 17 and 18: a while, a columnist would come alo
- Page 19 and 20: ONE
- Page 21 and 22: when no one was looking, and I woul
- Page 23 and 24: steps, not talking. As much as my f
- Page 25 and 26: Our home was on a major artery thro
- Page 27 and 28: She’d transformed, like Olivia Ne
- Page 29 and 30: I threw up seven times. Hunched ove
- Page 31 and 32: STARVED One of the curious aspects
- Page 33 and 34: more successful her eating disorder
- Page 35 and 36: orrowed. She couldn’t miss the si
- Page 37 and 38: To make it more confounding, Miles
- Page 39 and 40: efused to be won. I drank cup after
- Page 41 and 42: DRESSING IN MEN’S CLOTHES I start
- Page 43 and 44: coffee. But that seemed like a very
- Page 45 and 46: you to imperil our amazing friendsh
- Page 47: I FINALLY GOT a boyfriend near the
- Page 51 and 52: The production guy passed my desk a
- Page 53 and 54: drank myself to the place where I w
- Page 55 and 56: ehind me, and told him I was moving
- Page 57 and 58: my Harp as soon I walked in the doo
- Page 59 and 60: FIVE
- Page 61 and 62: “Your key, mademoiselle,” said
- Page 63 and 64: My friend Meredith lived in an apar
- Page 65 and 66: “This was fun,” I said. He was
- Page 67 and 68: OF COURSE. OF course I’d gone to
- Page 69 and 70: like you should not be crying,” h
- Page 71 and 72: SIX
- Page 73 and 74: When the bottle was drained, I’d
- Page 75 and 76: But no, really, I had it this time.
- Page 77 and 78: off a gargantuan diamond. I thought
- Page 79 and 80: INTERLUDE
- Page 81 and 82: ain, which allowed his body to deve
- Page 83 and 84: SEVEN
- Page 85 and 86: But his once-sallow cheeks were ros
- Page 87 and 88: announcing their baby. Nobody wants
- Page 89 and 90: want to remain silent and unknowabl
- Page 91 and 92: Bubba curled up alongside me when I
- Page 93 and 94: EIGHT
- Page 95 and 96: for me? My friends didn’t necessa
- Page 97 and 98: ecause otherwise you have to go int
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