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February 1971

The Good AAS from Outside

My heart will always be in institutional AA, for I know what it has done for me".

JUNE 8, 1970, was my fifteenth AA birthday. I am an ex-convict and an alcoholic. The very first time that I ever even heard of AA was behind prison walls. I was at a point where I didn't care any more what happened to me, for I had already lost everything that was near and dear to me. I didn't have a friend left in the world. I never knew what the visiting room looked like, for I never had even one visitor, and all the mail I ever got only reminded me of the past.

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