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Ian Forber-Pratt | Natick, Massachusetts, USA

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A slave to alcohol breaks free

“I knew there had to be something better.”

For almost five years, Ian Forber-Pratt had been partying hard. The label, he says, would have been functional alcoholic. But he was becoming spiritually bankrupt—and he wanted to turn his life around. That’s when he reached for Christian Science. Was he looking for healing? Not really, he says. But, in fact, that’s exactly what he found.