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January 2003

Turnaround

Once sober, this big shot began to strive for values he used to disdain

Not too many twenty-four hours ago, my pride prevented me from accepting any way that wasn't my way. I had big dreams and a worldly view. I knew my ship lie waiting not too far off the horizon, and I wasn't afraid to remind anyone who would listen of my pending success. When my wife, Nancy, and I launched our advertising agency in the early 1980s, we set in motion a machine that would further feed my grandiosity, cater to my already swollen ego, and until the very end, provide the financial support for my rapidly escalating alcohol and drug abuse.

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