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		<title>Psychobabble and AA Principles</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at an AA meeting recently when someone criticized what he considered to be the psychobabble at meetings. For some of us in the rooms, such criticism is often a back-door way of hiding behind the literature of AA in order to avoid being honest about our our motives, our rationalizations, our hidden agendas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Male Role Models</title>
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		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in the 1950s. Men were considered “real men” if they were either the strong silent type or the tough, &#8220;you-talkin&#8217;-to-me?&#8221; street type with their ducks-ass hair style and pack of Lucky Strikes rolled up inside their short t-shirt sleeve. These &#8220;real men&#8221; played sports and avoided the arts; loved manual labor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Discovery Journeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I was well into my adulthood before I began to figure out who I am, it is difficult for me to see where the desire to know about myself  could ever be a bad thing. The self-knowledge journey continues and, I hope, will be with me for the rest of my life. On the [...]]]></description>
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