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May 1972

How AA Works

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CONTRARY to the advice of the AAs who say, "Don't bother to find out why," I have always been curious as to why AA has had the success it has. As a man who's been around AA for a long time, I understand that AA cannot and does not help everybody. But it does offer the greatest help to the largest number of alcoholics of any system which has been offered to date. Why?

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