CALLAHAN UNBOTTLED For Bobby I think I was an waiting to happen alcoholic A fte r that I drank anything I could get my hands on. The very firs t time I drank I got drunk (Age 11). Once I started drinking I couldn’t stop. Often I got sick. I & 1 I couldn’t imagine life without alcohol. Restless and bored when sober, I managed to quit fo r briefperiods but I fe l t tentative about my sobriety. Booze made me fee l normal and uninhibited. I t gave me courage to do things I could never do sober. B. Bladder problems on the bus. . . Clinton St. Quarterly—Summer, 1987 BY JOHN CALLAHAN I I always did silly things while drunk: A . Ill advised sexual encounters. . . C. In ja il fo r a minor car wreck at 17, I ended up in a cell with a child molester who looked like Peter Lorre.
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