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May 1981

A Different Selfishness

The welfare of others began to mean more to him than his own problems

WHAT A SURPRISING and upsetting thing it seemed when I first heard it said that AA is a selfish program. Its meaning took a while to sink in: that I was the only one who could get sober for me, and in that sense, my recovery would necessarily be selfish.

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