Horror vacui

I suppose some might insist upon a Hexagon (see below). LOL.

All jokes aside, here are some heart-wrenching lines from a piece containing such abject truthfulness that it is rendered very difficult to read. At least, difficult for me.

There is a stiff price to be paid for handling one’s liquor: You come to believe there’s nothing you can handle without it.

For me, alcohol is not a means to “feel better”; it is the remedy to feeling anything at all.

Ora pro nobis.