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November 1992

The Message, Not Me

"No! Not me!" was my instant reaction to hearing the message on my phone machine from our local intergroup: a writer for a national women's magazine was looking for AA women to interview--if I wanted to talk with her, here was the number to call. I just automatically decided to refuse because I'd gotten so sick of what has become the "recovery industry" and the media attention to it; of the silly, inaccurate articles and self-serving books; and of the big and not-so-big shots who broke their anonymity consistently at very public levels.

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