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alcohol. Winters goes on to write that, although Robinson resumed drinking after prohibition, alcohol
would no longer be a problem for the poet (11). It seems to me that, for the alcoholic, liquor is always
a problem. Full recovery is usually impossible; alcoholics are always in recovery because their battle
with liquor is almost always a life-long affair {Alcoholics Anonymous 43).
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