Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, …

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