At rehab, Augusten stays for 30 days and faces the fact that he drinks too much. His friend Jim thinks the idea of going to rehab is funny. Pighead, who is HIV positive, thinks it's a good idea. Augusten tells his best friend, George Stathakis, whom he calls Pighead, that he is going to rehab. Augusten agrees to go to the Proud Institute, a gay rehab establishment. Augusten is frequently hungover at work, and eventually his co-worker Greer complains and he is ordered to rehab. He is now twenty-four and living in an apartment in New York. He is able to land an advertising job based on his talent when he is nineteen. He grew up in a dysfunctional family with no rules and no school. When he was thirteen, his mother gave custody of him to her psychiatrist. In the nonfiction book "Dry" he details his struggles with alcohol. Augusten Burroughs is an advertising executive in New York City.
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