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The Persistence of Delusion
He was certain he could control his drinking through willpower alone. Fifty years passed before he got sober….
My struggle with alcoholism began sixty years ago, when I was 15. I was standing next a grave occupied by a good friend of my brother Paul’s. Maggoo, as he was called, had been squashed by a log that broke loose from a stack as he was prepping it for a trip to a lumber mill. I thought that going to his funeral was an opportunity for me to drive with my permit.
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