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April 2009

GETTING SPIRITUAL IN SPITE OF MYSELF

Raised Catholic, a young man develops his own brand of spirituality in AA

I'M part of the CIA in Alcoholics Anonymous. Catholic, Irish, Alcoholic. I attended Catholic grade schools with nuns in full habits. There was strict discipline, memorized and ritual prayers, corporal punishment, and guilt. In my case I'd rather believe in no God than the one taught to me in my youth.

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