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No Pie in the Sky God

On a drive one day, she had a revelation about her drinking and connected with a Higher Power

Like many of us, I had grown up in an alcoholic household. My dad was a binge drinker – typically once or twice a month he would go out on a binge and although my mom was a great mom she was busy with my dad's alcoholism, cleaning up his messes, worrying about our next meal, the lights staying on, or what people outside saw. My mom was always worried that if people knew he was an alcoholic then that was all he would ever be and we knew he was so much more than that.

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