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January 2001

The Road Back

My grandfather took me to my first meeting when I was eleven, maybe twelve, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. That was around 1959. I did not drink then, but Gramp was in Alcoholics Anonymous and we all knew it. I served as an altar boy at the mass that preceded the breakfast speaker-meeting.

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