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March 1976

They Don't Understand

And does it really matter to us that they don't?

WHEN I WAS drinking, they didn't understand why I had to live the way I did. When I came to AA and started to get sober, they didn't understand why I couldn't have done it on my own, or why I had to go to meetings, or why this and why that. So I complained to myself and whoever else would listen, "They don't understand."

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