Jesse Carrajat appeared to have everything a man could want.
There was the beautiful wife, two young children and a third on the way, the well-paid job in insurance and the picture-perfect four-bedroom home he and his wife had built from the ground up to raise their growing family.
It was, from the outside, the portrait of a man who had made it.
Yet behind the doors of that carefully constructed life, Mr Carrajat was fighting a battle that almost no one could see. He could not stop drinking.
Mr Carrajat traces the beginning of his problems to the Covid pandemic in 2020, when
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