You can't make a horse drink water
if he still prefers beer or is too crazy to know
what he does want.
Set a pail of water beside him,
tell him how good it is and why, and leave him alone.
If people really want to get drunk,
there is, so far as I know, no way of stopping this --
so leave them alone and let them get drunk.
But don't exclude them from the water pail, either.
In AA we carry the message; not the mess.
H E L P = Hope, Encouragement, Love, Patience
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