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🏘️ guess who i just saw at ON POINTE DANCE STUDIO? CORINNE DURANT! don’t they look good for 40 years old? they have lived here for 40 YEARS and ARE a MANAGER AT ON POINTE AND AA THERAPIST. they view the increase in tourism as POSITIVE 🏘️ YAYA DACOSTA - CIS WOMAN - SHE/HERS 🏘️  

trigger for alcoholism, neglect, chronic illness

STATISTICS  

corinne durant. 40. march 8, 1982. pisces. cis woman. she/hers. bisexual. demiromantic. widowed. african-brazilian, african-american, cherokee native american, irish. agnostic. driven. charitable. down-to-earth. lonely. hard to read. faithless.

SUBPLOT

tw alcoholism - alcoholics anonymous has been having meetings at the church since the mid-60s and they are still going on, though now they try to accommodate all religions. corrine durant has been heading the meetings since the early 2000′s. they are a therapist, though they do have another occupation on the side. they are very protective over their group and they are the sponsor of muse ay (any gender). muse ay has been in the aa for three months now, after realizing they had a problem but have only been sober again for a week. after their pet died, they hit another rough patch but they’ve tried to start up their quest for sobriety once more. an older member who has just earned their two year chip is muse az (any gender). after a few bad break ups and financial ruin as a result of their alcoholism, they decided to try and turn things around which up until today has worked. they are the sponsor for ozzy ahmed who has been sober for six months now… well, sober - they’ve stopped drinking. they secretly do other substances as well, but aren’t quite at the point that they can admit that those too are contributing to their self-destruction.

BIOGRAPHY

she comes from a troubled home. her parents fought a lot, it wasn't very stable, she didn't receive a lot of attention from them because of it. she was very meek when she was younger, and because of it she fell into a bad crowd in high school. easily impressionable and just wanting acceptance. she started drinking with the people she hung around and formed a bad, bad habit with it. because of that she wound up being hospitalized on a few occasions, and eventually court mandated into AA by her junior year. she met a sponsor there who essentially became her de facto parent (a wc i'll be submitting at some point.)

she cleaned up. her sponsor ensured she had emotional stability, encouraged her to do better for herself. she loved them like the parent she never had, and wanted to do right by THEM too. she's been sober since they started sponsoring her because of it.

she loved to dance as a girl, but with unstable income she didn't really get to pursue it full time. instead she went to community college after high school to get general degrees, then pursued a degree in therapy to essentially repay that kindness she was given as a girl. she wants to help people, sincerely, and her inspiration is her sponsor.

she's the aa therapist in town, and genuinely wants to see these people recover and do better for themselves. she maintains a positive relationship with her sponsor, and she manages the dance studio (occasionally participating as well, since she never lost her drive)

in her mid twenties she met and married her husband (her sponsor gave her away). they had a fast, sweet, and extreme romance, but unfortunately he succumbed to an illness and she was widowed at 35. she misses her husband every day, and it was a challenge not to fall back in to old habits, but she sought her sponsor once more for emotional assistance and managed to overcome the urge

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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⚠️ connection alert ⚠️

CORINNE 🔗 JULIEN @julienwalcroft​ romantic

it started with incidentally meeting at the same place for coffee or dinner. she’s sure that she’s run into him more than that - but they mutually noticed one-another attending the same place like clockwork. a friendly hello turned into chatting over their separate meals ... into waiting for the other to show up to spend that meal with them. she’d heard some of the rumors about the three troublemakers in town but never connected the dots until she sat down and actually spoke to julien ... and he’s not a bad person. questionable decisions, sure, but not someone corinne is ready to condemn. she finds him charming and pleasant, easy to talk to, someone whose begun to open her up to conversations about herself. every friday she meets him at the same time - something of a date. she’s yet to miss one, and she’s started putting a little more into how nice she’ll look for what was once just habit at the end of the week. corinne has a soft spot for julien, the budding of feelings she hadn’t felt since she’d met her husband years ago.

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Yaya DaCosta in Our Kind of People [x]