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When writing about someone's struggle feels like betrayal either way

I'm writing a memoir about my daughter's addiction but every draft feels like either exploitation or erasure and I can't find the middle ground.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ethics of representation become impossible when love and truth point in different directions.

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