Merv Lien is author of The Devil’s Tongue available on PageMasterPublishing.ca. The Devil’s Tongue helps you find out why your love one acts so irresponsibly with alcohol. He shares this about himself.
I was born in Saskatchewan in the dirty thirties, and I developed a taste for tobacco and alcohol at a very early age. In total, I spent 52 years trapped by the bottle. This book is my autobiography, and it details, year by year, all the problems brought on by my drinking. By the time I hit middle age, I had wound up with eight children who were being raised by alcoholic parents. For many years, I ended up raising the kids by myself following a break-up with my wife. I later met up with a woman who had four kids of her own, and we brought them all up together – doing the best we could given the fact that I was drunk most of the time. By the end of 1992, when I finally quit drinking, I was sleeping in the back of my van as I had nowhere else to live. I was caught driving impaired, and the AA meetings and counselling I was compelled to take forced me to finally come to terms with my alcoholism. This is a true story of how I managed to get my life back on track and finally give up booze. I managed to regain the acceptance of my family and friends and undo some of the damage brought about by my years of drinking. I want my example to show that you are never too old to change, and that it is never too late to hope.
