I know exactly how many days sober I am and I’ve told no one
Four hundred and twelve. I keep the running count in a note on my phone titled “grocery list,” just in case anyone ever picks it up looking for something else. Nobody has. Nobody’s had a reason to, which is its own kind of strange, sitting with a number that big and having exactly zero people to tell it to. Nobody in my life has noticed enough to ask why I stopped drinking, which tells you something about how quietly a…

