ALCOHOL DESTROYS COURAGE! If it’s so obvious, why can’t the drunk see it? Because he has been brainwashed from birth to believe that alcohol gives you courage; and because his slide down the pitcher plant has been so gradual that each day he felt no different to the day before. He’s forgotten what it feels like to wake up bursting with energy and full of confidence. He blames his depleted state on old age and the sort of problems that normal drinkers cope with in their stride. He doesn’t realize that alcohol is the villain. On the contrary, he now believes it’s his only friend. The more poison
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