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- <title>
- Mar. 20, 1989: American Notes:Boston
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 20, 1989 Solving The Mysteries Of Heredity
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- BOSTON
- "I Am an Alcoholic"
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- <p> Kitty Dukakis returned home to Boston last week full of
- plans for speaking engagements and fund-raising campaigns for
- Armenia, AIDS and the homeless. But her most important project
- involves a continuing struggle. "I now know that I am an
- alcoholic," she said as her husband stood beside her.
- </p>
- <p> After a "terribly painful and lonely period" following
- Michael Dukakis' loss in last November's presidential election,
- Kitty, 52, checked into a Rhode Island clinic in early February
- for treatment of a drinking problem. She refused to blame the
- defeat for her troubles. "Any crisis could have led to the
- drinking," she said. "The campaign was a very positive
- experience for me. The only thing that happened wrong was that
- we lost." She can only hope her next campaign turns out better.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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