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Visiting Gene

She found herself opening up to Step Three after a friend shows her that it's a personal journey

My first AA meeting was in a smoky, windowless room in the basement of the hospital at which I was detoxing. I watched in frozen panic as the orderlies wheeled in patients, mostly older men in blue bathrobes, slumped in their wheelchairs, some toothless, some drooling.

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