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I’m Not It

Explaining how the Third Step works for him—and how it can work for others

As I approach my 29th birthday, I am increasingly grateful to the Alcoholics Anonymous for the life I have today. For many years I was grateful to be in recovery, but not grateful to be an alcoholic. As life’s events have unfolded, good and bad, I have become increasingly grateful to be an alcoholic. I am quite sure that it is only under the lash of alcoholism that I have sought any spiritual development at all; absent this, I would find no meaning in my life, no purpose to it.

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