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November 1965

To Have a Friend

Does your idea of friendship include accepting a bit of well-timed criticism now and then?

MORE than most people, we in this Fellowship need the sustenance of true friendship. We all arrive as loners and we are lifted from our pits of loneliness and despair by warmhearted people who are both kind and understanding. When we become able to give kindly understanding to others we have completed the first leg of our journey on sobriety's high road.

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