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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 Reprinted with permission
A.A.W.S 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 Reprinted with permission
A.A.W.S. Grandfather free us from the bondage of alcohol.
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