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May 1978

The Broken Mailbox

By: L. V. T. | Toledo, Ohio

ONE OF THE AA Big Book personal stories that used to puzzle me was about the professor and his paradoxes (in the second edition). What it said was that things are not always what they seem to be: We AAs "surrender to win. We give away to keep. We suffer to get well. We die to live."

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