You guys are great. Serious question for all... when was the last time you drank and why was it the last time?

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Last beer was in a Jack-In-The-Box drive thru in South Carolina in 2013. I'd run out of resources, friends and options. Didn't even have the money to buy rope.

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31 years ago today. I was just tired of the more I drank the more I lost, the more I lost the more I drank.

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March 9,2014. Woke up and finally realized I had a drinking problem.

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One warm Amstel Light at a Memorial Day picnic. May 27, 2002. Realized if I kept drinking like this, I would never achieve anything meaningful and would slooowly die of alcoholism. Went to a meeting the next day and haven't needed to drink since

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July 18, 2002 - went lunch...never went back to work... Bad times...

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January 2, 2009. Woke up to no job or friends and worse, I couldn’t get drunk or high anymore, no matter how hard I tried

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