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stopped several times and it felt awful—I’d have headaches and feel real irritable. One beer would make me right.

“Of course I knew I was an alcoholic, really. No matter how much beer I had in the house I’d drink it. I’d run out in the middle of the night for more.

“During the day I’d stop at all the different little stores near where I worked. If it was in the morning I’d make sure to say that I was going to put it in the cooler for lunch or after work. My average was between two or three sixpacks a day. I drank as much as I could physically, without passing out or getting too drunk to work, although that sometimes happened.

“The last time I stopped, I hope forever, I didn’t have the physical problems I had before. I had friends who

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