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guess I started drinking heavily from the time I started. I was about sixteen, but I was tall and I could get served. I knew my parents were alcoholics from the time I was in fifth or sixth grade. My father started losing jobs...we kept having to move.
“I never thought about my own drinking then (as a teenager) I guess I drank more than the average teenager, but so did the kids I hung around with. Mostly it was on weekends. We’d go to bars. It was something to do.
“After I got married, I started to think it was a problem—or actually, my wife thought it was a problem. I was always able to work—I never lost a job because of drinking. But I’d drink always after work and on weekends.
“Before that, it was causing problems for me. There were a lot of drunk driving charges, mornings of waking up in a drunk tank somewhere, some drunk and disorderly charges. Most of that stopped when I got married.
“No one ever said, ‘you’re an alcoholic.’ When I thought about it, at first I would tell myself I should cut down. That never worked. Finally, I would sometimes think I was an alcoholic but then I’d think, ‘so w hat?’ I wasn’t ready to stop altogether.
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