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February 1948

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A Better Lift at Last

Let's talk a little about our former use of alcohol. From the time we felt that first "lift," that first mysterious sense of "release," not unmixed with a sort of mischievous and exhilarating pleasure--from the time of that highly tragic discovery, we alcoholics were initiated into the Kingdom of Bacchus and the servitude of John Barleycorn.

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