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May 1989

Building an Arch

Step Five - Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

I first heard about Step Five from my sponsor. He had recently taken his. It didn't sound like fun. Not being one to suffer alone, my sponsor's immediate reaction to his own "spiritual house cleaning" was to launch me upon a Fourth step. He wanted to give away what he'd received. I thought, "What happened to 'this is a selfish program'?"

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