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June 1991

The Wrestling Match Called Life

One alcoholic sharing his or her experience, strength, and hope with another is the heart of Alcoholics Anonymous. This month, six more AAs share their thoughts on this topic, so vital to AA's future.

When I was nineteen years old, the product of an alcoholic family and already drinking at every possible opportunity, I fell in love with my main supplier, a wonderful guy who could drink a case of beer a night and not show it. He looked heaven-sent, and when he gave me my first bottle of champagne (and inadvertently my first blackout!) for my twentieth birthday, I knew we were soulmates. Within the year we were married. Within four years we had three children.

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