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He wanted to understand when he became an alcoholic. It was pretty clear

I went to meetings of AA for quite some time before I found out that I really am an alcoholic. At my first meeting, I told them I was a pothead with a cocaine problem who likes to drink and how I needed them to show me how to not do cocaine so I could smoke pot and drink like normal people. They just smiled and said, "Keep coming back."

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