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January 1989

PO Box 1980

Good for nothing

"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Living the Twelfth Tradition is a lesson in humility when applied on an individual basis. It prohibits me from upstaging AA and keeps the spotlight off of myself. It keeps me from calling up political and religious leaders and telling them a thing or two. It keeps still my pen when a psychiatrist decides that AA needs to be controlled. You see, my personality still gets me in trouble, but not like it did before sobriety.

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