Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two