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I began to experience a feeling of inadequacy when called upon to explain "how it works," until one day I picked up the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. There, on page 15, are four lines that make it crystal clear how AA really works, and they leave me with no doubt in mind when I quote them to an individual who asks that all-important question. Here they are: "AA's Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole."