Were you a screwed up teenager?

Were you a screwed up teenager?
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I was not a “screwed up” teenager; I got through high school with okay but not great grades, and then went on to the University of California. But I was drinking alcoholically by the time I was a senior in high school. And I did not recover from that until I was 30.
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