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Alcoholism, I know you can go into all sorts of,

I can go into all sorts of behavior.

When I was drunk and then when I was sober, made no difference.

When step one, when they're in there, when we get to be step one,

you know, talks about my life's unmanageable. You see, my life I didn't realize, when I was out in the world I was in, and I was working, my gosh, I made good money, I had opportunities, I had very, very kind people with me and for me and everything else. But you see, I didn't know that and I couldn't feel that or see that or with my mind. I couldn't do that or see that or with my mind I couldn't do that see because I was

always going on a selfie side I was always going on my way of living thinking

wanting doing and having and being, and having, and being.

And this in turn, I built a character like this now.

And I built this character, and the reason why I use these words

character is because they're in print,

and there's something I must know about. Because you you see it's much more to my problem than just drinking.

There's much more. I've got something wrong with me and it was never identified for me.

It was never identified in the first two and a half years an alcoholics anonymous.

I came here in Alcoly synonymous, I started going to meetings and as I started to go to these meetings, I went for two and a half years, steady, all the time.

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