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I'm Chief, and I'm an alcoholic.

You know, I'm very grateful for being here to begin with.

In fact, I'm very grateful to be anywhere when you're my age and still above ground.

By all means, I shouldn't be alive.

I was sentenced to death about 15 years ago, I know, and I'm still here.

And it was one of the reasons for the fact that my health went bad.

And I had been married at that time and for 30 years in the program.

And the doctor told my wife that if she didn't divorce me, she would die.

And you had to know her to understand why.

She started to worry.

We lost her home.

We lost our business.

And everything just seemed to fall apart.

And I wasn't too well.

She started to worry.

And she's actually only 98 pounds and she went down to 78 pounds.

And so the doctor told her, if you don't divorce this man, it gets separated from them,

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