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Mike Mather

Mike Mather is a writer with a history of alcoholism. The two are not mutually exclusive.He found recovery in 2008 through Buddhism and the 12-Step Program - also not mutually exclusive.  Now approaching his seventh decade, he writes about his experience of recovery and growing up though the tumultuous 20th Century. Some will argue that is he has not yet grown up.
Mike had three children, lives in a caravan in Australia, and votes.

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