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Sponsee: I've got a question.

Sponsor: Fire away.

Sponsee: My friend Darren, from up the estate, has got his hands on some drugs. He's offered me some. I can take them, can't, I, and still be clean and sober?

Sponsor: No.

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[Two weeks later]

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Sponsee: The situation's changed.

Sponsor: Fire away.

Sponsee: Darren says he's now trained as a shaman, and, if we take the drugs in Puerto Rico, it will be, like, super spiritual, and it will help me form a relationship with God.

Sponsor: [Stares]