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Found in the Heart

As long as she considered alcohol her best friend it was hard to truly want to stop drinking

I had been bouncing in and out of the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous for eight years when I got my third DUI. Until then, meetings were very important to me after a frightening blackout, a lost relationship or humiliating event. But after a few short days, the raging compulsion to drink would return and I couldn't seem to control the outcome.

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