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July 1991

The Independent Blonde

This is the sixth in an intermittent series of personal stories which first appeared at the back of the first and second editions of the Big Book, <emphasis type="bold">Alcoholics Anonymous,</emphasis> but were later dropped from the third edition.<lbBy p

I have to tell you a little of the way I lived before I got into AA so you can see why I made the choice that I did. I started drinking at the age of seventeen, but I was in trouble with myself long before that. I never got along at home, and at the age of thirteen I stepped off and decided I'd go out for myself. I decided that no one loved me and I didn't love them, and I was going off and make myself independent.

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