America Still Has a Coffee Obsession

Health, lifestyle, and consumerism

This Woman
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readJul 8, 2022

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The year is 2022 and America still has a coffee obsession. Five years ago, I was taken to the E.R. with heart attack symptoms. As it turns out, it was caffeine intoxication. I had an extra, super-charged espresso, brewed by my co-worker, before 11 a.m. A healthy mother of two children under four years old at the time, I remember nurses making…

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This Woman
ILLUMINATION

Mother, writer, busy woman. The only thing that matters about my childhood is that I survived.