It was 1981 when I made my first AA meeting. I wasn’t anywhere near being ready to stop drinking and using drugs. I can only say it was like having a veil covering my head. I…
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Adult alcoholics are forced to combat their post-intoxication experience in a dreadful sort of self-imposed, solitary confinement. Justifying their drinking…
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Promises Malibu
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