Posted on 07/24/2014 6:59:15 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
The problem was less the bender itself than the chaos it caused in their brain chemistry.
As an analogy, a painter has been carefully painting a detailed picture for some months, then he gets drunk and makes the painting all sloppy. When he sobers up, he may decide not to get drunk again and spiritually recover, but his painting is still fouled up and will take a long time, if ever, to fix.
His AA friends can help him with his spiritual recovery, but there is not much they can do about his painting, no matter how experienced they are.
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