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January 1950

Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now

or the tribulations of an adolescent alcoholic

New Year's always takes me back to my childhood in a little town on the Indiana bank of the Ohio river. Recalling those halcyon days now makes me wonder how I ever got up nerve enough to take my first drink. At the impressionable age of 14 I must have been at least a 2000 to 1 bet--with no takers--never to become a drinkin' man!

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