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Hi, I'm Beth.

I'm an alcoholic.

I'm Beth.

I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Dan.

Just real quick, we may or may not split this chapter into two weeks.

There was a lot of stuff that Beth had to sit.

But yeah, we'll get right into it.

And the first thing that Beth wanted to talk about was we hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic.

So we're on page 44 in the very beginning of Weagnostics, and we've spent 44 pages talking

about the problem as we see it, the problem as Alcoholics Anonymous sees it. If you've gotten

to this part in the book and you're going forward, as it says in the rest of the paragraph, if you've gotten to this part in the book and you're going forward as it says in the rest of the

paragraph if you honestly want to and you find you cannot quit entirely or if when drinking you have

little control over the amount you take you're probably alcoholic and that was for me those were the

those were the two big ones um qualify my alcoholism. Going forward,

we're not going to talk a whole lot, if at all, about alcohol. We're going to start talking

about the rest of the disease and the symptoms and the solution to get free. And there's

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