In article <nM6dnVlFMPNhCCbYnZ2dnUVZ_rCsnZ2d@giganews.com>, oran
(oran@kinzua.net) says...
> I was very afraid to change, much like you seem to be. I thought stopping alcohol would be
> horrible, a huge insult to all the breweries out there; The anheuser Busch Co would knock on my
> door and wonder why I wasn't drinking a case of their beer every day like I used to.
>
> But it turned out that the really big deal about stopping completely was that my life was no
> longer handcuffed to an addictive chemical. No longer did I have to worry that I need enough beer
> to get by day after day. When I went to restaurants, no one there cared if I had a cocktail or a
> diet soda. But I cared and my family did too, that my heart had not collapsed, my liver stopped
> tearing itself apart. I felt better, healthy, there were a million things to do around the house
> that I never noticed before. There were so many extra hours in the day because I didn't spend them
> drunk anymore.
>
> A life change isn't easy, we know that. A year after I stopped, alcohol rarely entered my mind.
> Now, 14 years later, no drinking at all, my old life is just that. History.
> Oran
>
That was a nice story. I liked that.

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