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The Best Life I Have Ever Lived

Overcoming alcohol and mental illness, he found a new life in AA

I moved to Italy when I was 12 years old. I became mentally ill at the age of 16 in a Catholic seminary and became violent. I left the seminary and was violent in my family and my own mother sued me in court. I started using alcohol as a sedative, which didn't work well. Italy was a drunk's paradise. I never got a DUI nor got fired from a job. I drank every kind of wine I could find.

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