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    Leslie Jamison

    Mar 29, 2021 2 minutes

    FROM ISSUE #69: INTOXICATION

    In [] you talk about the usefulness of clichés, especially how AA members tend to traffic in these wonderful, pithy bits of advice and wisdom. Phrases like are shopworn in AA circles and may not be exciting on a language level—and yet, you write, they can have demonstrable, immediate value for a person

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