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June 1953

I Came to Believe. . .

BE grateful you're an alcoholic, for you have imagination, vitality and a gift for life that tragically was going in the wrong direction. You are in some intangible, elusive way lovable, with a special, almost unique drive or talent that can be so useful to the world, so valuable to yourself, as well as to others, if only it can be set right.

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