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May 1972

A Sponsor Can't Be My Higher Power

We belong to no one and no one belongs to us. We are God's "babies

WHEN I FIRST CAME to Alcoholics Anonymous, a beaten and whipped specimen of a human being, I witnessed a great many things which absolutely appalled me. But, considering the shape I was in and having already rejected AA on three or four occasions, I thought it best to keep my pearls of wisdom to myself--in simpler language, to sit down and shut up.

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