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Fitting In

He played the clown and partied hard, but was never able to find his place until he got honest about his drinking

Recently, I was asked what got me to A. A. For me, it was the emptiness inside. I always had big time insecurities and felt that I didn't belong. That square peg in the round hole, as mentioned in the literature. I was sipping my father's beer as a young age. When I was 13 I had a bad accident, breaking all three bones in my left leg. They didn't heal properly causing my shin to have a 12-degree angle outward. This confirmed that I was different physically, as well as mentally. 

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