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May 1982

PO Box 1980

Another chance to live

After eighteen years of beating my head against the wall, and twelve years of sobriety, my disease was to strike again. "Cunning, baffling, powerful!"--I attest to that. I didn't believe that alcohol in any form was poison to me, but a bottle of cough syrup set me on eighteen months of misery. Three or four swallows of that, and begorra, I was high! All my aches and pains went away. So, of course, I had to have more--but it was too far to town.

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