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November 1973

Carrying the Message

Perfectly sane

I don't know why they ever added that "sanity" bit to the Second Step. My sanity is depicted in my patience with myself and other people. An example of my patience and tolerance is when I'm reading a chapter in the "Twelve and Twelve" and I hurriedly count how many more pages there are to read to this damn Step Four. Also, I display patience after I telephone for a taxi; it doesn't arrive immediately, so I call for another and another.

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