Sugar Fix: Sweet life at death's door

29 June 2015 - 02:05
By Damon Gameau, © The Daily Telegraph

In 2008 I was pretending to enjoy life as an early 30s single male. I enjoyed a pack of cigarettes a day and pouring two cans of Vanilla Coke into my face cave. But I was wrenched from the clutches of self-destruction just in the nick of time by a nurturing and emotionally intelligent woman.I knew the moment I laid eyes on the radiant, effervescent creature that Cokes and cigarettes were not going to penetrate the health force field that surrounded her.

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