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January 1953

From the Grass Roots

DO WE ALL HAVE TO TALK?

IT is continually brought to my attention that one must talk at meetings. But no one yet has told me how I can get up and speak of my experiences when I have been listening to people who make my experiences nil. Oh, I'd been drinking for eighteen or twenty years, but whereas I was constantly in hot water and reduced to the lowest Army grade upon numerous occasions, I was never hospitalized or jailed. Just recently I spent six days in the dispensary to assist me in getting over my latest slip. I was in no worse shape than I'd been on numerous times before. It did make it easier to get off of, though.

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