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April 1975

PO Box 1980

What's a slip?

I drank for twenty-one years before I ever heard of AA. Every time I started out drinking in those years, I drank because I wanted to. But after many of my drinking bouts, it was hell stopping. I must have quit a thousand times in those years--and started drinking again the same number of times. I didn't have a thousand slips. These were all planned drinking bouts.

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