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January 1971

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Somewhere there is someone who needs you just as you need him - The essence of AA

WHEN I first teamed up with AA, I had many problems I could not cope with or understand. I was on my own, 200 miles from any other A As; most of my knowledge, of necessity, came from AA literature. I had considerable trouble remaining sober and failed dismally a number of times during the first live years. Now I realize that a lot of my slips were occasioned solely by my lack of understanding of AA methods. They had never been explained to me.

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