Testimony of Healing December 28, 1992 Issue

I first drank alcohol in my freshman year in high school

David Christian Smith

I first drank alcohol in my freshman year in high school. Everyone else was doing it, and so I did too.

While in college I drank with my friends regularly. All of our social activities seemed to include alcohol in one way or another, often in great quantities. While I would not say this was ever a problem of actual physical dependency, drinking was certainly a very important part of my life.

Toward the end of my undergraduate years, I began questioning more critically the dominant influences in my life. Some seemed to show great promise for the future, while others seemed to be holding me down like a lead weight.

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