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By Jack Joseph Smith

Here I am in my sixties saying that I understand Alcholism because if there isn't love or war you get to imagine it; but I still don't get hard drugs, especially in the ways their used; and that goes all the way to the Hell's Angel's who I've liked

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At an older age, the speaker links alcoholism to an imaginative substitute for love or war, while still drawing a hard line between that habit and the harsher world of hard drugs.

The page is reflective without becoming innocent. The scan-corrected punctuation makes alcoholism an imagined substitute for love or war, while hard drugs remain a different kind of damage.

Claude

Author in his sixties admitting he understands Alcholism (sic) because without love or war you get to imagine it — but he still does not get hard drugs, especially the ways their used, all the way up to the Hell's Angels who he has liked.