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"It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, however the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one little. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar tissue when it robs you. Close your eye and available them again. That's what a blackout feels like." For Sarah Hepola, alcoholic beverages was "the fuel of all excursion." She put in her evenings at cocktail functions and dark pubs where she happily stayed till previous call. Drinking noticed like liberty, part of her birthright as a solid, enlightened 21st-century woman. But there is a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What does I say yesterday evening? How does I meet that dude? She apologized for things she couldn't bear in mind doing, as though she were clearing up after an evil twin. Publicly, she protected her pity with self-deprecating jokes, and her job flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no more avoid a sinking truth. The gas she thought she needed was draining her soul instead. A memoir of unblinking credibility and poignant, laugh-out-loud laughter, Blackout is the storyplot of a woman stumbling into a fresh kind of excursion - the sober life she never required. Glowing a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the self-confidence, intimacy, and creative imagination she once assumed arrived only from a container. Her tale will resonate with whoever has been compelled to reinvent or struggled when confronted with necessary change. It's about quitting the thing you cherish most - but sometimes back in return.

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