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POSITIVELY NEGATIVE

We drank for happiness and became unhappy.

We drank for joy and became miserable.

We drank for socialability and became argumentative and obnoxious.

We drank for sophistication and became crude.

We drank for friendship and made enemies.

We drank to be outgoing and became self centered.

We drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self pity.

We drank for sleep and awakened without rest.

We drank for strength and felt weak.

We drank for sex drive and lost our potency.

We drank for relaxation and got the shakes.

We drank for confidence and became uncertain.

We drank for bravery and became afraid.

We drank for certainty and became doubtful.

We drank to stimulate thought and blacked out.

We drank to make conversation easier and slurred our speech.

We drank for warmth and lost our cool.

We drank for coolness and lost our warmth.

We drank to feel heavenly and knew hell.

We drank to forget and were haunted.

We drank for freedom and became slaves.

We drank for power and knew powerlessness.

We drank to erase problems and saw them multiply.

We drank to cope with life and invited death or worse.



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We paid full price for sobriety and then had to give it away.

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Great post



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Nices



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This was incredible.

-Adam



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Like "paid the price to give it away"!

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