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October 2009

My father's example

He knew he'd never be an alcoholic like his dad

THE first Alcoholics Anonymous speaker meeting I attended was in semi-rural Tennessee. I was 13 and I went reluctantly to hear my father, who was two years sober at the time. Why did I need to hear him speak? I already knew his story: a disgraced, small-town doctor, an absent father--a sad old man to me.

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