"I've always wanted to stand out. And i think that probably protected me from doing anything really stupid as a youth," he says. "Things became really centered around drinking, and i was preventing me from any real progress in my life." He enlisted in the military because whele, the biggest reason was, 'i decided to go back to school' The author has now been sober for 20 years.

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