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192 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Of course, as time went on, I began to get my
health back and began to be so I didn’t have to hide
from people all the time—it’s just been wonderful. I
still go to meetings, because I like to go. I meet the
people that I like to talk to. Another reason that I go
is that I’m still grateful for the good years that I’ve
had. I’m so grateful for both the program and the peo­
ple in it that I still want to go. And then probably the
most wonderful thing that I have learned from the
program—I’ve seen this in the A.A. Grapevine a lot of
times, and I’ve had people say it to me personally, and
I’ve heard people get up in meetings and say it—is
this statement: “I came into A.A. solely for the pur­
pose of sobriety, but it has been through A.A. that I
have found God.”
I feel that is about the most wonderful thing that a
person can do.