10 years ago my brother reached out from addiction. I wish I could go back and take his hand.
Sosha Lewis lives in Charlotte.
It was 10 years ago, not too long after I was promoted to assistant vice president at my corporate job, that my little brother appeared, in a haze of drugs and desperation, from out of my old life and pleaded for entry into my new one.
And to my everlasting regret, I turned him away.
It has taken me a long time to understand the roots of that decision; understanding makes the guilt bearable, but it doesn’t make it go away.
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