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September 1961

The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 4

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

JUST to show how easy it is to take somebody else's inventory, here's a little story. Some time ago I visited my old group, noticed a rift between a wealthy retired clique and some working stiffs, and suggested it was time to take group inventory. There quickly descends on my head the wrath of an old-timer, eighteen years dry. His neck red and cheeks mottled, he demanded to know how I could have the effrontery to criticize this group.

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