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February 1981

Self-support

Tradition Seven

OUR TRADITION of self-support (long form) indicates that "the AA groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members . . . that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous is highly dangerous"; that we should maintain "prudent reserves"; and "that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority."

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