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The Slippery Slope

He was a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde drinker all his life—respectable, but with a hidden “inventory” of booze

In 1957, at the age of 20, I stepped onto the slippery slope of social drinking. Within a few years alcohol had become an integral part of my life. Wine tasting events did not occur frequently enough for me, so my cupboard became a storage place for enough bottles to make sure I would never run out.

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