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January 1973

Responsible Sponsorship

As AA grows, let's not lose that joyous one-to-one relationship

I DID NOT want to go to the meeting. I could not picture myself in AA. I had never thought of myself as an alcoholic. I had problems, but nothing as mundane as alcoholism. I went to the meeting anyway. The guy in the next bed said you could get cigarettes at the meeting, so he would go, even though he was no alky. He gave my ego the excuse it needed. So I went.

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