Pennsylvania and georgia is he maintained his lead in arizona and nevada bidens a razor thin margin grew is millions of mail in ballots were tallied securing him more than enough Electoral College votes to become the 46th president of the United States well the announcement has sparked celebrations across the country large crowds have gathered in washington d. C. As well as new york city and philadelphia well lets go live now to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan you obviously have been following every twist and turn of this election it took a couple of days but joe biden is now the president elect. Exactly i came to trump in 4 years ago and it looks as if a year when were counting him but the Republican Party are seeing quite yet we are just above the white house you can see Lafayette Park behind me which has been sealed off since around the time of the george lloyd protest. In the summer behind that is the white house the oval office is just over to the right and in front of Lafa
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Host some of the most striking parts are if your book, your talk about behaviors, in hindsight it is easy to see the signs of addiction. In realtime it is not. Tell me about that. What i learned is not only is that true but i came to the idea of addiction with my own implicit biases. I did not think someone struggling with the drug addiction would look like peter, earning the salary he was earning, have two advanced degrees, have a successful partner and at prestigious Silicon Valley law firm. Someone struggling with an addiction was also struggling with conditions like a homeless or Mental Illness that was untreated. They were someone i would see on the side of the road living under a bridge panhandling on the subway and i was very wrong although addiction hits hard in those communities there are plenty of people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder struggling as well. What i didnt know is i hadnt educated myself on the symptoms of drug addiction. I hadnt thought it would affect me
Work it must have been you uncovered extremely painful parts of your past so tell me more about your writing process when and how you decided to go about writing the book. This started even before the book. 2017 i wrote a story that was call beware of the addict so a lot of the research for that piece and exploring it with my family and children to see if it was okay with them and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. To make meaning out of something that was arbitrary and shameful but also to understand what was going on in the legal professio profession. After that came out, it surprisingly had a viral life and i got a lot of feedback from readers especially Young Lawyers who said now im worried i will end up with my exhusband who was facing depression and anxiety. So then at that point i had started to think about a memoir so i feel my process started before and then i think another eight or nine months talk about high Addiction Centers and people that i met on th
I think the writing process started even before the book was starting to come together in 2,017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband peter and it was called the lawyer, the addict. I did a lot of research for that piece and thinking about it and exploring it with my family, with my children and seeing if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the world the story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. All of it was largely to make some kind of meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and we felt guilty about. Also to try to understand what was going on for peter and under stand what was going on in the Legal Profession in terms of Substance Abuse, depression and anxiety. After that came with it surprisingly had a viral life and had millions of shares and i got a lot of feedback from readers, especially Young Lawyers who said im worried im gonna wind up like your exhusband. Facing a lot of the same is