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June 1948

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People who have read my story, If A Man Be Mad, often charge me with having stubbornly resisted A.A. My personal opinion is that A.A. makes its own chance, often having its greatest effect on those who seemed to resist most. Something in them isn't ready and they are honest enough to know it. But when they are ready they will remember. My sponsor gave A.A. to me in a humble and believing abundance. From the point of immediate results, they were wasting their time. I believed in them but not in myself.

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