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and what it's like now so as i said my name is david i'm an alcoholic my sobriety date is 228 14

um i have a home group, which is Duck Island,

Monday night, 6 o'clock at a Greenwood Christian Church, and I have a sponsor. So what it was like,

I guess I can say that, you know, some of my earliest memories are of my parents drinking. My father always had a beer in his

hand or beer at the table. I remember him giving me the beer caps, you know, when I was eight years old

and I would solve the puzzle. And that was kind of the way it was. You know, alcohol was just there

and everywhere, and it was fun. It was just part of life. But I didn't start

drinking really young. I had a sister who did, but I was kind of the nerdy kid. I was always the one

off alone by myself, always with the book. I'd get picked on a lot, and I was short, and so I

always felt kind of apart from everybody. I always felt also that I

could never measure up to my dad's expectations. So, you know, that set a pattern for me.

And but drinking was not a big thing for me until I got to college. So I went off to school and I could kind of reinvent myself and part of that was alcohol.

Alcohol is everywhere on campus.

It was easy to get.

Nobody cared what age you were.

And so again, it was fun.

Drinking was just what everybody did, and I went along.

I didn't like the taste at all, but, you know, I kept at it.

And, you know, it gradually grew on me.

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