"Departure" Workshop

This is a nostalgic story about a character who struggles to move on to a new phase of her life-- namely, full-fledged adulthood.

First question, is this character a recovering addict?

Also, this seemed to read more like a series of events, instead of a story. I really did have trouble finding a change in the character.

I would have liked to see flashbacks of fond, or not-so-fond memories in action instead of the narrator's explanations.

I really like this topic, it makes the protagonist really relatable. To improve, you might want to focus on the reader feeling the same emotions as the character.