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RFK Jr. Among Supporters Of Skakel Parole
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WATERBURY — — Michael Skakel has helped alcoholics get sober, taught English to inmates and worked from behind bars on maintaining a relationship with his son, according to letters in favor of his parole, including one from cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The Legacy of Gene Duffy

Once a skid-row alcoholic, Gene Duffy found hope through AA and opened Duffy’s in 1967. A powerful speaker whose passion was to see addicts saved from themselves, his spirit lives on at Duffy’s Napa Valley Rehab. To learn more about Gene and watch his inspiring recovery talks, visit geneduffy.com TRANSCRIPT: Patrick: What I know about Gene Duffy is he was absolutely passionate about helping alcoholics and addicts who were suffering. Mike: My dad was a skid row alcoholic in Chicago who got sobered up through Alcoholics Anonymous. Through some divine guidance, we believe, he was led in his heart to start a program that he could give back and help those who were in need of the same treatment he received. So in 1967 my dad found this place in Calistoga, CA, and started Duffy’s Myrtledale Lori: Gene Duffy was powerful, very, very powerful, and when he spoke, you listened. It didn’t matter what, you listened. Gene: “Many who are real alcoholics, and that includes you sitting out there right now, by every form of self-deception and experimentation will try to prove yourself the exception. Those are the ones who are going to die who sit right here in this room tonight. Because of their self-centeredness, their ego, their stubbornness, their refusal to accept the evident truth that’s sitting right in front of them, are going to try to drink or use again.” Patrick: Now his style of helping them was different probably than what is seen at Duffy’s here today. You might say that the …

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