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Help for a ‘Garden Variety’ Alcoholic

He had been an ordinary drinker, but received extraordinary help from AA

It was June 1984. I hadn't been drinking for long, maybe eleven years, but I'd had about all the "fun" that one guy could stand. Later on, an old-timer at my home group used to say used to say: "I'm a garden variety alcoholic, but that's enough to kill you."

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