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December 1967

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Miracle? Phoenix Calls It 'Alkathon'!

Twenty-four-hour Christmas


It was Christmas Eve morning, and I was alone. For the first time in fifty-one years, I would spend Christmas without any of my family. I was here, sober but lonely, in my own private desert in the middle of the great Southwest Desert.

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