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to make it easy for me to get to the liquor. My sobriety's too precious. I didn't want to lose it on a whim or impulse. If I wanted to take a drink, I wanted it to be difficult, a conscious decision. It was the first time I’d ever stood up to him like that." The applause from her A A friends was spontaneous.

There’s eloquence, even poetry in the stories. “Misery - I know misery. I was comfortable with it when I was drinking. It was like a favorite old bathrobe. I knew how it would feel when I put it on. I knew where the lumps were."

There are stories that strike a common chord in everyone — alcoholic and nonalcoholic. "I set a higher

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