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I was terribly frightened. In the back of my mind I thought that my leaving would be such a shock that he’d come to his senses and stop drinking. I still knew nothing about the disease. Instead, he drank twice as much.

“I thought I was getting my life together, but of course I still had the same characteristics that had prompted me to stay with him so long in the first place. I thought I was supposed to take care of everyone, that it was my responsibility to make everything right.

“Through a friend, a recovering alcoholic, I learned

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