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“He did start losing jobs, so I started working part time. The less he did, the more I did—covering bad checks, paying bills, working more. One day he called me from work and said he was sick. I took him to a doctor and the doctor said he was suffering from alcoholism, and that someone from AA would call him. It turned out to be my hairdresser.
“He went to a meeting in Warrenton. When he came home he said that he wasn’t going back—that he had nothing in common with those people.
“So he went on drinking for six or seven more years. A lot of it he blamed on me.
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