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n May 1938, when Bill W. began work on
the fi rst draft of what is now the Big Book,
I Alcoholics Anonymous, in New York City and
Newark, New Jersey, he had been sober about three
and a half years. Dr. Bob was sober a few months less
than three years, and the other 100 early members who
contributed in one way or another to the writing of the
book had been sober for periods ranging from a couple
of years to a couple of months.
The early members realized the book would need a
“story” section. “We would have to produce evidence
in the form of living proof, written testimonials of our
membership itself. It was felt also that the story section
could identify us with the distant reader in a way that
the text itself might not.”
Dr. Bob and the members in Akron, Ohio led this
effort. One member of the Akron Group was a former
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