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Author and Public Speaker Allan McDougall takes you into the life of an alcoholic with unforgiving detail. It leads you down the tortured path that brought him to the brink of suicide by alcohol and back from that hell into the light of a productive life again.\\xa0 McDougall\\u2019s book, Breaking Through: Discovering the Riches Within, is the memoir of a hard life, yet one that, more than 20 years after Allan\\u2019s critical moment on the brink, continues to be fully redeemed. \\u201cMy intention\\u201d, says Allan \\u201cis never to see through people but to see people through. This book is a dream I have carried with me for twenty-four years.\\u201d He lives these words daily as head of the United Steelworkers Union\\u2019s Emergency Response Team, reaching out as a crisis counselor to the families of workers killed on the job. \\u201cEvery day for 22 years I went thousands of feet under the ground and fought Mother Earth in sweltering heat for her mineral wealth. But, however far inside the earth I went, the riches I discovered when I went deep within myself, the 18 inches from my head to my heart, have proven much more valuable. Those 18 inches were the hardest distance I have ever traveled, yet, after more than twenty years, I am still mining that vein, and I am convinced that it is a bottomless source of personal riches.\\u201d Many is the book we can\\u2019t put down, but rare is the story we take with us. Breaking Through is such a story.