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MESSAGE

Dear brother:
orry to distract your attention and to beg alms for five minutes,
Sbut in recent years I’ve learned that the best way to maintain and
enhance my sobriety is by sharing it with others and that’s the reason
that drives me to form these fines.

For twenty years I was allied to the bottle.

Even in the beginning, I was a social drinker, drinking once in a while,
when the occasion was warranted. Later on as a heavy drinker, more
often and more intensely abusing my absolute assimilative capacity.

I didn’t have problems with alcohol. But one day, I don’t know when
or why.. I crossed that invisible line that separates a «normal drinker»
(social or strong) from the «problem drinker» or «alcoholic.» And
although I refused to acknowledge it, problems began to emerge:
financially, physically, morally, in my ability to work, in family
relationships, living in society, my responsibilities, my spiritual
values. But I stupidly, with that inflated ego that characterizes
alcoholics like me and makes them live in a world of selfishness,
continued to believe I was the social, smart and great drinker.

Everyone was aware of the «downhill» direction I was headed to,
everyone ... except me. I didn’t realize that I was BINGE drinking. A
mental obsession and a physical compulsion pushed me to continue
drinking. I, who for a long time in my life couldn’t fathom drinking
alone, was now drinking alone, wimoat any moo company that min
uge gmtath. any own e=Wft .-During my many years as a drinker, I
could not imagine drinking in the morning, and was now drinking at
the break of dawn.

But I continued to believe that I was the social and friendly drinker
and proclaiming that the day I had problems with the bottle, I would
jeopardize my strong will ... And to hell with the glass!