50 Years Out of the Ring
December 2015 | Oldtimers

50 Years Out of the Ring

An old-timer remembers back to 1965, when she stopped fighting and hung up the gloves for good

There was no alcoholism in my family that I’m aware of, but I believe I was born an alcoholic. After I got sober, my parents told me that as a toddler, when they had friends over for drinks, I would toddle over as they set their drinks down and drink them. Everyone thought it was cute back then. Not so cute later.

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