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Not that there's anything wrong with lawyers; some of my best friends are lawyers: Lapsed lawyer Stuart Taylor ( Inside Washington ) on cover-ups and obstruction of justice: "Lawyers do things every day that would strike the average American as a cover-up."
And in AA, you can confess to anything, and all that fundamentally matters is whether you have lapsed from your obligation to sobriety, not what the consequences to others were.
Portugal soon lapsed into decline, though, tattered by wars and constitutional crises, and for two centuries or more the Algarve remained isolated from the rest of Europe.
She could not alter the coven of frontier cannibals to, say, lapsed Catholic priests, although I bet that the idea crossed her mind.
Take a lapsed Hasid such as Pearl Abraham.