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October 2010

The Perfect weekend

After 60 years in AA, an old-timer reflects back to the first convention

At age 24, I was one month out of a Nebraska state hospital and three months sober when the first international AA convention was held, in Cleveland, in 1950. I couldn't afford to attend, but I've studied the reports on it and all international conventions ever since.

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