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  • Mysterious Ways

    The Second Step

    Jul 25, 2019 4 minutes
    By Bob L., BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

    I was an active alcoholic for more than a decade. I drank through high school, college, law school and the start of my legal career.

    I burned through two marriages and could barely function at work. Why not just quit and slink back to the small town where I’d grown up? There would be no legal work, nothing to get in the way of my drinking.

    Mulling over my plans to leave everything behind, I finally hit rock bottom. I hated what alcohol had done to my life. Something had to change.

    I thought I could stop on my own. Yet as much as I wanted to

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