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The White Flag AA meeting — "But so when you get to…"

quote

But so when you get to this jumping-off place at the Finish of your Substance-career you can either take up the Luger or blade and eliminate your own personal map—this can be at age sixty, or twenty-seven, or seventeen—or you can get out the very beginning of the Yellow Pages or InterNet Psych-Svce File and make a blubbering 0200h. phone call

Context

The fork restated after the Louise B. digression, now with both tines spelled out: "eliminate your own personal map" or the blubbering 0200h. phone call that starts an AA life. The ages are the idiom's democratic clause — the map comes off at sixty or seventeen alike. ("InterNet Psych-Svce File" as written.)

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