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Just one. People who could have just one drink used to really pi$$ me off. What nerve. Half the time they wouldn't even finish it. Just leave it sitting there on the resteraunt table, unloved, ignored, oh so lonely. Calling out with it's siren song to me "Steal me..Take me...DRINK ME!" "HELLO!!! ...Reality Calling..." I never wanted one of anything in my entire life!! My "drug of choice" was MORE!!! Anywhere, anytime, anyone (if they were buying). This was a pervasive thread in my mental makeup. It plays out as "I want what I want, and I want it NOW...

Irish Proverb:"First the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man."Short and simple. A hard and fast truth for those of us who are admitted alcoholics. Without recovery, the darker truth is "Incarceration, Insanity, or Death". I heard this early on, and tried to imagine if it had "really been that bad". Truth was, I was the only one who didn't know how bad. I was a highly functional drunk. I went to work (and drank for lunch). I did my job (and plotted a route to the fist available 6-pack). Had...