I would like to start my story, not at my first drink, but instead at some things that I discovered about myself only in recent years.
Back when I was growing up, it was perfectly acceptable to spank your children. I know because I was one of those children and I got
spanked alot!

What is supposed to happen when one gets spanked is behavior modification. In other words I was supposed to learn not to do
whatever it was that I was doing. Now, what I am about to tell you is one of the reasons why I think that I was an alcoholic
long before I ever took my first drink. Every time I got spanked for doing something wrong, like stealing or lying or any number of other
different reasons, instead of learning that I wasn’t supposed to do the wrong thing, the only thing I learned was that I needed
to be a little sneakier the next time.