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March, 2012

Falls off the wagon with Richard PryorIn 2000, I was living in the Midwest for a year, teaching fiction writing at a college. I had taken the job be­cause I was broke. So, sadly, I had left New York and my beautiful young girlfriend. We were supposed to do the long-distance thing—just for two semesters—but a few weeks after I got there she broke up with me in­stead, and I took it bad. I couldn't stop thinking about her, and I lost my mind.I was supposed to be on the wagon, but I fell off, and in...