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May 1985

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

HERE'S ANOTHER TALE about marital relationships, from J. D. of Maryland. A newcomer to AA was asked at a meeting what his thoughts were. "Well," he replied, "I don't know how you folks got to be alcoholics, but I know how I did. My wife's father was an alky, and so was her brother. Her first husband was a dipso, and now I'm an alcoholic. I'm convinced she's a carrier, like Typhoid Mary."

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