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This is by no means an exhaustive list of the inductees into Kate's Bad Date Hall O' Fame. It is merely a small sampling for your reading pleasure. May you never have a date like any of these. The Coke Dealer I had been seeing my date for about a month. He wasn't my boyfriend. That night I noticed he was getting paged a lot. Through dinner. Through the first bar. Through the second bar, where we planned to ring in the new year. (Nice bars. Not shitty dives.) Finally I said, "Wow! That's a lot...

When I was six I knew. Hell, I probably knew long before that. I knew what it meant when my father came home smelling sour and funny. Those nights were becoming more and more common. Those nights my mother looked angry and tired. I knew the bottles on the bar in the dining room. What it meant when they were left open, their sour and bitter smells wafting. I knew what it meant when my father sat slumped in a chair in the corner of the living room, amber liquid-filled glass in his hand, ice cub...