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Paddling to Serenity          Although I am 36 years sober I am not serene every day. So, I go to meetings daily.        I was born in Biloxi Mississippi in 1933 and moved with my parents to Englewood Florida as age 3 and have since lived in Homestead, Stuart,   Gainesville, and now Ormond Beach for the past year with my son Saint Micheal.         I was active in Gainesville AA but only entered Alcoholics Anonymous because I was told to go to daily meetings or else. I did not think of myself as a low bottom alcoholic and therefore through faulty reasoning remained on the sidelines for far too many years.         To this day I firmly believe that the average man in the street understands alcoholism far better than the average psychiatrist. Most psychiatrists avoid the issue of personality, but AA directly recogniz...