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December 2005

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The shadow of fear

When my AA sponsor helped me through the Fourth and Fifth Steps, I learned that fear is like a shadow that's just behind resentment. Over ten years ago, I felt that my obsessive-compulsive disorder made me nothing but a worthless failure, even though I was sober. My sponsor wanted to know it I was doing my best to live a sober life. I said, "Yes." He said that to continue, I must get over my resentments.

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