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March 1971

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. . . many streams of influence and many people, some of them nonalcoholics, had helped, by the Grace of God, to achieve AA's purpose." Bill in <emphasis type="italic">AA Comes of Age</emphasis>

ALMOST from the start, Bill was eager (nearly to a fault) to pass the credit for the development of AA on to others. His passion for relative obscurity extended beyond the Twelfth Tradition--"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities"--into a personal matter of pride.

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