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December 1981

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Those old-fashioned, simplistic adages" can save your life

PROBABLY, most adults can relate to my experience of reaching this conclusion: "Maybe those old-fashioned, simplistic adages my parents drilled into me are turning out to be pretty valid after all." As I look back to my very first days as a member of our Fellowship, I distinctly recall a feeling of patronizing tolerance for those poor, misguided old fogies in my home group. They obviously believed those cliches they offered to fit any and all occasions.

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