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March 2002

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Days of infamy

My first day of sobriety was November 5, 1963. A few days before, a bartender friend of mine had driven me up to the Lenox Hill meeting in Manhattan, where the first words of the speaker to register with me were: "I don't care if you went to Yale or jail; if you have a drinking problem, you belong here."

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