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Elli Miles Kade

Elli Miles Kade is the pseudonym of an author who lives in the South. She says both her kids are way smarter than she could ever hope to be.

— From October 2014
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Last Call

I was lucky. I didn’t have a physical dependency on alcohol. I just drank to be like everyone else at the party. Faced with a choice between dying young in a tangle of smashed things or pulling it together to have a regular life, I chose the regular life. I traded living on the edge for just living.

October 2014
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