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Old 09-16-2016, 05:00 PM
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Gottalife
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With friends like that, who needs enemies? Bearing in mind this is a progressive condition, as long as we are alive to let it progress, eventually we will reach a position where alcohol is our master, not our friend. I got to this point, it is well described in the big book :

" He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end."

By this stage, alcohol was not my friend, offered no relief. I got in with some people who found a way out. I was reduced to two options, carry on and die an alcoholic death, or learn to live on a spiritual basis. I chose the latter.
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