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January 1991

Peace Is the Power

Step One

It finally dawned on me that I was powerless over alcohol only after I had been pounded into something I barely recognized. Not until I had lost everything I owned; not until my family and my boyfriend had detached from me or deserted me; not until I had almost completely ruined my health; and not until my last scrap of dignity had been snatched away from me by alcohol.

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