From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... insulted if
called alcoholics, are astonished at ...
BB p.33,
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Certain drinkers, who
would be greatly insulted
if called alcoholics,
are astonished at their inability to stop.
2.
... insulted if
he were called an alcoholic.
BB p.109,
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