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I finished a four-week treatment program on my 31st birthday in June 1972. During the first week, three men from Group One in Kansas City, Mo. brought a meeting to us. I was impressed that three people would take time out of their lives to bring a meeting to a bunch of patients at the state hospital. They had what I wanted: clean clothes, money in their pockets, time in their life to visit with patients in a state hospital. I was impressed.