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May 2009

A white towel experience

A 19-year-old gets the message during a hallucination

My spiritual experience began in January of 1985. I was on the downward cycle of alcoholism, spinning relentlessly out of control. I would sit in my bedroom, watching a religious program, praying along with the preachers, drinking from a bottle of whiskey and asking their God to come save me. In February of that same year I was raped. By the first week in March, I was seated in the family room of my parents' home telling my mother, "If I only had a group of people to talk with, I think my problems would be solved."

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