Will I Ever Be Able to Go Into a Bar?

Kelly Tompkins
3 min readOct 26, 2022

After almost 4 years, it really depends.

Photo by Michał Mancewicz on Unsplash

I was tested a couple of weekends ago.

Here I was waiting to meet a new friend so while I waited for them, I walked up and down the strip. Walking past bar after bar, I could smell the stale beer, the old liquor, and just how damp some of these bars were.

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Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.