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December 1978

Tough Love

They said there were no have-tos, but a lot of you'd-betters!

WHEN I ARRIVED at the door of Alcoholics Anonymous seven and a half years ago, I was extremely fortunate in having offered to me the strict compassion, the disciplined love, and the total honesty that I so desperately needed. I was barely into my thirties, a frightened, pathetic woman, and, although I was unaware of it at the time, as miserably alcoholic as I would ever need to be again.

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