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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘Alcohol almost killed me – now I celebrate sobriety in the most unlikely of places’

Dave and Stephen Crawley at Cheltenham Festival, where the pair meet up to celebrate their years of sobriety - (The Independent)

Two decades ago, just before Christmas, Dave Crawley thought his life was about to end as he lay in a hospital bed.

Suffering severe liver damage after years of alcohol abuse, his parents gave him some rosary beads, and a chaplain at The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford read him the last rites.

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