Dear Eric: I have been in recovery for alcohol addiction for almost 31 years. Needless to say, my life is wonderful and so good compared to those years when I was active in my addiction.

Recently I was with someone who knew me before recovery. In a room with people who really didn’t know me very well, she told the story about how I was drunk, in a blackout and stole something from someone. Now I don’t know if this even happened. However, I was so embarrassed and hurt by the fact that she would do this to me.

She is my dear friend, and we have been friends for more than 50 years. I am really upset enough about this to just want to end the friendship.

It’s really not the first time it’s happened. It seems to happen when we are with people who have just met me or just don’t know me very we

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