ADDICT'S WAY | Stephen Liosi

I’m a lawyer who became homeless because of a gambling addiction. It took me 40 years to stop. While living in my car and cheap motels, I wrote an autobiographical novel about it.

A traumatic brain injury suffered from a car crash in May 2016, which eliminated all cash flow as I couldn’t function, didn’t help the cause and was the main reason behind the homelessness, along with the fact that compulsive gamblers don’t have savings accounts. And zero help from my malignant-narcissist family and only vilification from them didn’t help, either. I was adopted into an awful family.

I began reading Hemingway and writing when I was 8 years old. When I was 15, I covered high school sports for the Los Angeles Times, the Herald Examiner, and the Whittier Daily News. In my senior year of high school, I submitted 3 stories into the school’s short story writing writing contest: I placed 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mention, validating my talent. On the way home from the awards banquet, my father said it was the saddest night of his life. Like I said, I was adopted into an awful family.

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