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September

ME AN ALCOHOLIC?

– Alcohol’s wringer squeezed this author–but he escaped quite whole.

After talking with him for a time, I heard myself saying,
“Doc, I think I’m an alcoholic.”
“Yes,” he said, surprisingly, “you are.”
“Then why in God’s name haven’t you told me so during all these years?”
“Two reasons,” he said. “First, I couldn’t be sure. The line
between a heavy drinker and an alcoholic is not always clear.
It wasn’t until just lately that, in your case, I could draw it.
Second, you wouldn’t have believed me even if I had told you.”

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