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How Alcohol Steals Away Your Life (And that of Your Loved Ones Too)

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How Alcohol Steals Away Your Life (And that of Your Loved Ones Too) Negative effects of intake of alcohol in large quantities. I was angry, very mad. It had taken the last toll on me and I swore that it will never affect me again. My dad had just come from his drinking spree, and started pouring insults on my mum. We were really young by then, my siblings and I could not do anything about it. We could just watch as our mum, shed tears-day-in-day-out. But, on this particular day, I was so mad. I was angry at him, I was angry at the bar owners from where he got this deadly drink. I was angry at the manufacturers: anyone who made that drink had pissed me off up to the neck. I had watched my mum suffer because of it from a young age. She used to cook food stuff at the roadside, so that we could eat and get an education. Back then, life wasn’t expensive, and the inflation rate in Kenya was manageable. A huge chunk of my dad’s salary went to drinking alcohol; before long he

3 Common Causes of Death Worldwide 2018

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“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”     ―  Lemony Snicket ,  Horseradish Death is a subject that we all know very well, yet we dread it so much. The painful experience that follows after the departure of a loved one can’t be compared to any other. We are born together, live together, love each and in just a few seconds, the journey of a dear one comes to an end. Sometimes it happens abruptly, other times, we get time to be prepared but it’s never accepted easily-no matter the amount of time given to us. This is a