Koren Zailckas

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I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree

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But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous

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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged

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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet

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It's meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one