Life Overflow

   Now I get it. Jean-Paul had never lived a sober day in his life. He wasn't trying to protect me from knowledge of his impending death by AIDS. He used that as an excuse to continue living in denial about his own alcoholism.　

   Jean-Paul died of AIDS. 　

   But it was alcoholism that killed him.

   No epiphanies for Jean-Paul.



from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 33)