12-The_math_of_the_New_Lenox_house

Previously on Her Story: Nicole comes home from Hazelden with footing. A sponsor, a rhythm, a year of sobriety that holds. Then a job — bookkeeping for a tutoring company, a Facebook page that actually works, a phone that actually rings. She is good at it. Genuinely, visibly good. The job lasts a year and a half and ends the way these things end — someone's fiancée takes over the books, no hard feelings, that's that. She is still standing. The math is still close. But something has shifted.