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with normal living. When we discovered that we
could not live without alcohol, we, too, sought
help through A.A.
All the great faiths are represented in our
Fellowship, and many religious leaders have
encouraged our growth. There are also atheists
and agnostics among us. Belief in, or adherence to,
a formal creed is not a condition of membership.
We are united by our common problem, alco-
hol. Meeting and talking and helping other alco-
holics together, we are somehow able to stay sober
and to lose the compulsion to drink, once a domi-
nant force in our lives.
We do not think we are the only people who
have the answer to problem drinking. We know
that the A.A. program works for us, and we have
seen it work for every newcomer, almost without
exception, who honestly and sincerely wanted to
quit drinking.
Through A.A., we have learned a number of
things about alcoholism and about ourselves. We
try to keep these facts fresh in our thinking at all
times, because they seem to be the key to our
sobriety. For us, sobriety must always come first.

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