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October 1982

Safeguards for Survival

AA's Twelve Traditions are a powerful protection for the future

TAKING THE Twelve Steps as a means of achieving sobriety was brought to my attention with loving emphasis very early in my association with AA. At the time, no one told me that taking the Twelve Traditions with equal devotion was as vital to AA itself as the Steps were to me. My new mentors, when I arrived in 1958, hadn't grasped the importance of the Traditions as fully as we have since then.

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