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Nicely presented Scenario...
For me, a memorable Step Function was to have no interest in going back to being that casual Drinker. Nor do I have any 'want' to be a Normie Drinker. It may be nothing but Mental Sleight-of-Hand on my part, but my embedded recollections of Drinking-related times are mostly negative because that's the note they ended on.
I'm quite glad that this 'pull' I read about here on SR often has evaporated for me. There simply is no fight against that Alcoholic Quicksand. It reads as if it must be continually exhausting.
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