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May 1968

Only One-sixth Left!

The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made." <emphasis type="italic">Robert Browning</emphasis>

I AM TOMMY, and I'm an alcoholic. I'm now going to tell you about something that happened to me at a meeting here, some time back. And it was during this memorable meeting that I was enveloped by a wave of depression the like of which I'd never experienced before. For then--and why then I don't know, for it had been so obvious for so long--I was confronted with the inescapable fact that most of my life was over!

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