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Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe any...more

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Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jet...more

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I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

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Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and...more

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I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. "Listen," she said, not unkindly, "up until now I would say t...more

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Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who su...more