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the daily to-do of staying sober

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join Group, get Active, get phone #s, get sponsor, audio-call sponsor daily, hit meetings daily, pray like fiend for release from Disease

Context

The Program's practice reduced to a chore-list: join, get Active, get numbers, get a sponsor, call daily, hit meetings daily, pray like a fiend — and don't kid yourself you can still hang around bars drinking Millennial Fizzies. Recovery as relentless daily action rather than insight, the doctrine's anti-intellectual insistence that you Do the litany whether or not you understand it.

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