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While drinking, and even after I sobered up, I hurt a lot, and used to ask, "Why?" A recovering alcoholic who is a clergyman helped me a great deal. He told me that God created pain as an indicator that something is wrong. If you had a bad appendix and felt no pain, you would die. But since we feel pain, we can take the necessary steps to solve the problem.

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