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Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

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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?

Source: Glad Awakening, Ch. 2, with Chris Chase, 1987.
-- Betty Ford, (Apr 8 1918-2011), US first lady, dancer, philanthropist; She established the Betty Ford clinic after disclosing that she had become addicated to alcohol and pain killers; wife of president Gerald Ford.


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