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[US] H. King Shirt of Flame 86: I’d been a blackout drunk for twenty years,.
at blackout, adj.
[US] H. King Shirt of Flame 99: My task [...] was to [...] rejoice in the families at church, to get a kick out of their kids.
at get a kick out of (v.) under kick, n.5
[US] H. King Shirt of Flame 85: I don’t in any way mean that I was, or wanted to be [...] a ‘lone wolf’.
at lone wolf, n.
[US] H. King Shirt of Flame 84: One day someone nabbed the parking space I was going to pull into and—without swearing—I simply drove on.
at nab, v.1
[US] H. King Shirt of Flame xviii: [I] took road trips, drove to jails, psych wards, and rehabs to share my experience with other drunks.
at rehab, n.
[US] H. King Shirt of Flame 84: A forgetful friend stood me up for lunch, and within minutes, I’d let the incident go.
at stand up, v.
[US] H. King Shirt of Flame 10: We will not be so gullible again, we tell ourselves. The world will not walk over us. We will not be chumps.
at walk (all) over (v.) under walk, v.
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