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May 2000

Alone Among Many

As the only Jewish member of Alcoholics Anonymous in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, I can easily find reasons for feeling like I don't fit it. Given my alcoholic predisposition to being an outsider, it has always taken work to accept my disease and even more effort to focus on my similarities with my nondrinking fellows. In this conservative part of the country, the only ethnic people around are Native Americans; yet our Fellowship has attracted only one from that group. So each year, the Jew and the Indian alcoholic compare notes at Christmas, and we measure our respective growth by how well we handle the season.

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