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Old 04-28-2019, 03:32 PM
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Gottalife
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The main problem for me would be if I began to think I could just have a couple. The last time I tried that, what should have taken a couple of hours turned into a four day spree, with all attendant misery. Nobody talked me into that, it was just the obsession that this time would somehow be different. It wasn't.

I ahve not had much trouble with people wanting me to drink, maybe one event every five years - something like that. In the early days it may have been because I extracted myself from the great unwashed and began mixing with different people, those in AA with a solution to life, and as I changed in the process, I found myself mixing with a different type of person out in the mainstream of life.

There was a saying I heard once along the lines that how a person turns out will to a large extent depend upon the books they read and the people they associate with. I think here is more than a little truth in that.
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