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September 2000

Northern Lights

Referring to the "geographic cure," page 101 of the Big Book states that if we go to the Greenland Ice Cap to try and avoid drinking, chances are that "an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything." The irony in this for me is that whenever an Inuit person showed up at my door, I was the one giving them the booze, and it was never scotch. I am an alcoholic temporarily residing in eastern Canada. My home, however, is the Northwest Territories.

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