If you love an addict, you will become familiar with the need to follow his every move, second-guess every word, beg from across the kitchen table to please just tell the truth, listen at the bathroom door to make sure he is not using, overnight drug tests to a lab in California for a final read, because you will still see glimpses of who he once was, and there is nothing you want more than to have back the kind and beautiful person behind the addiction.