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Dog Spelled Backwards Is God

Her long road toward recovery from the spiritual and physical effects of alcoholism led through the program—and a four-legged friend

In February 2018, I was circling the drain with what I estimate to be about a 40% chance of survival. I’d abused alcohol and made it my Higher Power. I thought that with alcohol I could deal with anything. The death of my baby, my father, the murder of my brother, the death of my mother and my aunts and uncles as well as the loss of my best friend to cancer when she was so young. On top of this I lost my two dogs almost back to back and it nearly did me in when they died.

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