Marin resident reflects on near-death experience, sobriety journey in memoir

• Hilary Young Ritter is the author of "Trusting Gus." (Courtesy of Hilary Young Ritter)

• (Courtesy of Hilary Young Ritter)

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Hilary Young Ritter is the author of "Trusting Gus." (Courtesy of Hilary Young Ritter)

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Hilary Young Ritter was 10 years old when she almost died while swimming with her friends in a creek in Keddie, a small mountain resort town in California with a one-room post office “run by a gossipy older woman” and a tiny general store...