![My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy - he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-stay-in-camp-betty-was-the-longest-id-been-without-drink-or-drugs-in-my-adult.jpg)
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