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Greetings, frightened out there.

We're gathered here today, and a very special kind of an A.A. Meek, one that was dreamed up by my friends at the

headquarters and the thought was that we would discuss the AA tradition.

I like this idea because as you know it's been impossible for Lois and me to travel extensively in A.A.

And to contact you as we used to.

It strikes us that films of this sort may be the very best best.

Of course, one thing I like about this day and meeting, in particular,

is that I'm assigned to do all of the talking.

I still have some vestiges of ego.

Speaking of ego, this had a great deal to do with the formation of A.A.'s tradition

in first place.

As every A.A. knows, we shall always be threatened by menacing forces within, and certainly

in the world of great peril in which we live today, by menacing forces without.

So a very prime problem, the prime problem of AA, is first how to survive and then to grow

and prosper in numbers and in spiritual substance over the years to come.

As practically every heir knows,

the traditions are the application of A812 steps,

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