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November 1982

AA Is Getting Too Organized!

AA has thrived on healthy disagreement from the earliest days of the Fellowship - From the February 1961 Grapevine

"WE'RE GETTING entirely too big," he said. "And too organized. We get too much publicity. We're in danger of losing the blessings of intimacy, the person-to-person touch. We forget that this outfit is based simply on one drunk talking to another. We don't need any fancy headquarters and big conventions and TV shows."

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