The Best Stories You've nEver Read #55

Me and My Girls -- New York Times

In a gripping memoir, New York Times media writer David Carr tells the story of his life raising twin girls born prematurely in the midst of his crack binge. Carr says the girls turned his life around.  “If that all sounds like some after-school special," he writes, "with the fat ex-junkie dad singing to his misbegotten daughters, well, it is what it is." This selection from the Times Magazine is excerpted from his book, "Night of the Gun," published by Simon & Schuster.

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-- Dick Weiss