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April 1961

Slips

An examination into the causes and consequences of taking that first drink

RECENTLY, a young man with six years in AA walked over to his liquor closet, poured himself a drink and, with a barely perceptible shrug of his shoulders, started off on a monumental slip. By odd and unrelated coincidence, his neighbor, a lady with ten years of happy sobriety, concluded that state over the New Year's holiday.

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