How I Got Sober and Stopped Being Funny

And it was worth it

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I come by being an alcoholic, honestly, thanks to my father. According to the experts, less than half of alcoholics’ children become alcoholics themselves. My sister is one who didn’t; I’m one who did. You’d think seeing my father drunk would have been enough to turn me off on the stuff altogether, but it didn’t, because unlike him, a WW2 veteran, I could handle…