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My makeup wasn’t smeared, I wasn’t disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

Betty Ford

It’s always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they’re about eighteen years old. If you haven’t made your points with them by then, it’s too late.
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Children Feelings Years
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.
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Country Father Husband
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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Baby Blessing Duty
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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Independent Kind Streak
I’ll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
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Denial Forget never Reactions
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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Firsts Hate Lady Love
When I say we’ve had an ideal marriage, I’m not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it’s all a couple has built on. We’ve had that and a whole lot more.
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Couple Marriage Talking
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that’s what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn’t eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.
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Alcohol Mind Thinking
For 14 years, I’d been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I’d lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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Alcohol Tolerance Years
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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Baby Grandpa Husband
I really didn’t want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.
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Names Personal Thing Want
My makeup wasn’t smeared, I wasn’t disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
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Alcohol Humor Makeup
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Earth Helping Others
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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Alcohol Knows Preoccupied Served
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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Alone Easier Fear
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Anticipation Business Sad Truth

My makeup wasn’t smeared, I wasn’t disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

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