Great Escape

Love, Loss, and What I Drank

From escaping with alcohol—to escaping from it

Kristi Coulter
Published in
14 min readAug 2, 2018

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Illustrations: Teddy Kang

The Toddler Years

Southern Comfort, 1971

While your parents watch 60 Minutes, you sit on the floor and page through Time magazine, stubbing your finger on any page with a bourbon ad: Daddy drink! Your parents find…

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Kristi Coulter
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Author of “Enjoli,” NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS, and the forthcoming EXIT INTERVIEW, a memoir of ambition, work, and Amazon. www.kristicoulter.com