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In
1825 a missionary said: I have not seen one of them drunk, by 1843 the
agent reports: The Osage have drank more whiskey in the past year than
they have since they were a people. Osage Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No
person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his
fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have
been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like
other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his
drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence
of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity
or death. Big Book pg. 30 Who cares to admit defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every
natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It
is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our mind into
such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of No
other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the
rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and will to resist
its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going
human concerns is complete. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions pg.
21 Grandfather free us from the bondage of
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