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July 1997

Spiritual Recycling

Step 7 - Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

I have never been able to identify with the way the "Twelve and Twelve" talks about character defects as things that need to be "removed." It just sounds so negative, like having your teeth out: what do you do when they're all gone? I'm not even entirely sure what a defect is.

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