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there is in the world, keep looking. I have a dozen friends who got sober at your age—or younger!—there’s a meeting in New York called Never Had a Legal Drink. You don’t have to believe in god, the rooms are full of atheists—I am one sometimes—I heard about a meeting in San Francisco called the Fuck God, No Readings group.

Good luck, I said as the elevator doors opened. A ludicrous thing to say. There’s no luck involved in this.

“Good luck to you, too,” she said.

She walked out of the elevator and into the rest of her life.

Copyright © 2012 by Mike Doughty

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Doughty, Mike.

The book of drugs : a memoir / Mike Doughty.—1st Da Capo Press ed.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-306-82050-2

ML420.D737A3 2012

782.42166092—dc23

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2011020815

First Da Capo Press edition 2012

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