This book is the story of my 41- year (and still counting) journey in sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. It focuses primarily on my early years that began with meeting a very handsome, smart, accomplished man, I'll call him Hal, at dinner one night with a mutual friend. I'd bridled at the notion of going to dinner with "an alcoholic." There was only one alcoholic I had ever personally known, a man who was a mean, angry drunk who'd call on the phone late at night when I was a child, drunk and yelling about talking to ...
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This book is the story of my 41- year (and still counting) journey in sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. It focuses primarily on my early years that began with meeting a very handsome, smart, accomplished man, I'll call him Hal, at dinner one night with a mutual friend. I'd bridled at the notion of going to dinner with "an alcoholic." There was only one alcoholic I had ever personally known, a man who was a mean, angry drunk who'd call on the phone late at night when I was a child, drunk and yelling about talking to my father, snarling: "you better get your damn father to pick up this goddam phone, if you know what's good for you, girly." To me, back then, he was what an alcoholic was-a "drunk" as my dad called him. So you can imagine that the thought of going to dinner with a guy like that was astonishing to me.
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