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the survivor 57Billy Frank who gets his picture taken with presidents and senatorsand governors,” a family member once said. “That’s all real for whohe is now, but that wasn’t always him. That’s not the full picture, andour young people would benefit from knowing the rest of his story.”Billy developed a sense of humor about his addiction. Years afterhe quit, at a summer concert in sweltering heat, diehard Bob Dylanand Tom Petty fans baked inside rfk stadium in Washington, D.C.Billy, Suzan Harjo and their partners sat amongst the crowd.“It was packed and 105 degrees in Washington, which is just awful.We were burning up,” Harjo says. The foursome decided water wastoo precious a commodity and began dousing themselves with beer.Even Billy, who’d sworn off alcohol years before, dumped one coldone after another over is head. “Even when I was drinking, I neversmelled like this,” he laughed.