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March 1967

Back to California. . .

with the Big Book on his knee

ON my fourth AA birthday God was generous beyond belief and sent my poor old alcoholic father, whom I hadn't seen for many years, to my home. I was so very grateful for the opportunity to see him and to make my amends to him for all the bitterness and lack of understanding I had harbored toward him for so long. It was wonderful to tell him, "Dad, I do love you, and I know now that you have always loved us too, and I know that your drinking had nothing to do with that love--that you were a sick man. I know this, because I have been afflicted with the same sickness."

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