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May 1975

How It Works

Do we really listen when we hear it read?

IN OUR CIRCLE of AA groups, the reading of "How It Works," from Chapter Five of the Big Book, is traditionally included with the Serenity Prayer and the Preamble in opening our several weekly meetings. Therefore, in my less than two years' sobriety, I have heard "How It Works" several hundred times--but did I really hear it?

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