Living like two people had been my choice and living as one whole person would have to be as well. I had to choose sides. And choosing sobriety gave me myself back; without having to hide one set of friends from another set, without having to juggle work and partying, without having to tend to hangovers as part of my morning routine, without having to worry that my worlds would collide, I could be a single solitary person without the vampire inside. I knew who I wasn’t supposed to be—barely employable, unproductive, financially reckless, unreliable, a liar. Now I could try and find out who I
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