May 1999
90-day Trial
From the Archives - This article first appeared in the January 1959 Grapevine as one in a series of articles aimed at newcomers to AA.
Much of what we hear in AA is quite different from what most of us expected. Some of the suggestions given are directly opposed to our habits of the past. Even our AA language is strange; it may often seem to be contradictory, yet some of our phrases, while unique, have a meaning useful to us which perhaps only alcoholics can understand and appreciate.
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