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April 1974

Now!

It was a long journey into the present but now she knows it's the only place to be

WHEN I was drinking, I was a past-and-future girl. My life, naturally, was completely unmanageable. I can't say that it had been particularly manageable before I started drinking, either. In fact, I think I lost control of it when I was about three. I didn't have the kind of family life that gave me a good sense of values. Nobody around home knew what love was, and several members of the family were alcoholics.

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