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January 1969

Open the Other Door

Let the family into the blessed shelter offered through Al-Anon, even if the alcoholic is still nursing a bottle. It can give you a knowing ally.

I HAVE become convinced that to "let the family alone till later" is one of the greatest sins of omission that a twelfth-stepper can make.

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