I say all of it. The failures. The prison time. The arrests. The rehabs. The adultery. The stealing—from my own father. The lying—to my own family. I say I was a piece of shit. A junkie. A loser. An adult who made adult choices. And I own every bit of it. Because for me, calling it what it is matters. I don’t dress it up. I don’t rename it. I don’t pretend it was something softer than what it was. It wasn’t just a “lesson.” It was a failure. And it was a lesson. Both can exist at the same time.

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