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In less than two months, my son, now legally an adult, will graduate from high school. It’s been an interesting ride, to put it mildly, watching him grow up, missing the little child gone forever now, but being psyched to see the young man he has become. Watching him play three gigs last week during SXSW was a great chance to have gratitude that he found his passion early—picking up a guitar at twelve and, as far as I can tell never putting it down—and that he lives in a town that embraces creativity in general and music especially. Where was I when I was his age? Hmm… Well, I had passions, too, namely boys and booze. The human oxymoron, I was both president of the student council and a burgeoning drunk, having begun binge drinking at 14, heading down a path that would take me more than two decades to step off of, into the more stable land of sobriety. I was laughing on the outside, raging on the inside, furious at my tyrannical father and unhappy with my lack of options.