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July 1973

Walk in with Him

This wife finds that a husband seeking recovery needs her by his side

WHEN I MARRIED, my husband was already an alcoholic, I believe now. Of course, I didn't know then what an alcoholic was. I was under the impression that an alcoholic was a person who was always dirty, disheveled, and unshaven and made his bed behind some old building or in the gutter. My husband was always freshly showered, clean-shaven, and neat, and he slept in a bed with clean white sheets.

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