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October 1963

Tough But Blessed Way

From "a nothingness provoking repugnance," this AA found a--

I AM Carlos Alberto. I believe I am only known by this name at the registry. At home, in the street, among friends and all who know me I am best known by the nickname of Ito. By this nickname I am known to those who love me and cared for me in my years of carefree childhood. I grew up and became a man. Or rather that was what I thought, because the truth is that is when I departed from true manhood to sink myself in the whirlpool of alcoholism.

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