Why does Step 5 ask us to share the exact nature of our wrongs?

What do we gain from this?

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Mary Pearl T's thoughts on Step Five.

Okay, we're on Step Five.

Admit it to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. We admit to God for forgiveness, to ourselves for awareness,

and to someone else for humility, for humility.

It's another ego deflation step just as steps one two and three are. I can't

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