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Allen — now nearly 23 years sober — said he began drinking at age 10, inspired by cowboy movies that showed men riding horses and drinking whiskey. "That stuffs gotta be pretty damn refreshing," he thought at the time.  By the time his father was killed in a car crash when he was 11, he was already an experienced drinker. "I was lost," he said of his adolescence.  In 1978, when he was 25, Allen was arrested at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in Michigan with over a pound ...