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September 1965

My Name Is Bill

An alcoholic's own story

MY name is Bill, and I'm an alcoholic. It's a real paradox, but the final realization that I was an alcoholic was the one thing that seemed to give me the courage and the will to try to rebuild a life from the shattered pieces, and to try in some small measure to help rebuild some other lives that I had helped wreck.

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