From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... astonished at
their inability to stop.
BB p.33,
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Certain drinkers, who
would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished
at their inability to stop.
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