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August 1978

How and Why AA Grows

A presentation to the 28th General Service Conference of trends and developments in our ever-expanding Fellowship

THE GROUP is where it happens. "I got drunk, but we stay sober." That's why it's tremendously exciting to look at the records and see that in 1977, 2,595 new groups in the U.S. and Canada asked to be listed at AA's General Service Office in New York. During the same period, 1,337 groups became inactive. For comparison, in 1976, 2,175 new groups formed; 1,020 fell by the wayside.

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