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December 1973

Carrying the Message

All this, plus coffee and. . .

I'm an alcoholic, definitely powerless over alcohol. Meetings remind me that I'm a drunk; if I don't go. I'm liable to have a slip. So I'm a permanent member of AA, which I imagine has a membership of about 750,000 all over the world, all races and creeds and colors. The latest estimate is supposed to be 650,000, but from what I've seen, only about half of the people who go to meetings register as members of a group.

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