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February 1958

Who. . . Me?

"NO MAN CAN consider himself a real member of AA just because he does not drink," we read, one day. "There is such a thing as having a sober body and a mind that retains its drunken stupidity. The body will express lip service to the AA program but the mind still wallows in an alcoholic quagmire. The physical sobriety is used only as a cloak to cover the same corruptive thinking and conniving that was always present in the mind. Dishonesty of thought and action is just as vicious in the sober man as in the drunken man. In fact, it has a more foul odor in the sober man, because the sober man has not the excuse of fuddled judgment.

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