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November 1968

Rage

He reached a plateau in his AA progress. Could he cross it without slipping off the edge?

WHEN I first came in full sincerity to the program, I was completely out of steam. I had alcoholically beaten myself unmercifully. I had demanded by word and deed that others take stringent emotional or physical action against me, which they did take, I challenged twelve policemen to a gun battle in my front yard. I wasn't going to shoot them, but I wanted them to think I was, so they would shoot me!

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