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December 1954

The Twelve Steps and the Older AA--Third in a Series

Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

ONE night during my fifth year of sobriety my sixteen-year-old son was critically hurt in a railroad right-of-way accident and in a few hours lie died. My daughter asked me, "Didn't you pray?" I told her I had. She said, "Then why did he die?"

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