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65 25 and padding my ex-
65 26 pense account.
65 27 My wife Misunderstands and Pride-Personal
65 28 nags. Likes Brown sex relations
65 29 Wants house put in Security (fear)
65 30 her name
65 31 We went back through our lives. Nothing counted but
65 32 thoroughness and honesty. When we were fin-
65 33 -ished we considered it carefully. The first thing ap-
66 1 parent was that this world and its people were often
66 2 quite wrong. To conclude that others were wrong was

66 3 as far as most of us ever got. The usual outcome was
66 4 that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore
66 5 . Sometimes it was remorse and then we were sore at
66 6 ourselves. But the more we fought and tried to have
66 7 our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the
66 8 victor only seemed to win. Our moments of triumph
66 9 were short-lived.
66 10 It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment
66 11 leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise
66 12 extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours
66 13 that might have been worthwhile. But with the alco
66 14 -holic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a
66 15 spiritual experience, this business of resentment is in-
66 16 finitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when
66 17 harboring such feeling we shut ourselves off from the

66 18 sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns
66 19 and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.
66 20 If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The
66 21 grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may
66 22 be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcohol-
66 23 ics these things are poison.
66 24 We turned back to the list, for it held the key to the
66 25 future. We were prepared to look for it from an en-
66 26 tirely different angle. We began to see that the world
66 27 and its people really dominated us. In that state, the
66 28 wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, had power to
66 29 actually kill. How could we escape? We saw that

66 30 these resentments must be mastered, but how? We
66 31 could not wish them away any more than alcohol.
66 32 This was our course: We realized that the people

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