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basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day. My name is Don. I am an alcoholic.

And I'm a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. My home group is simply known as an AA group.

We were trying to name it.

We were going through the traditions and the long form of the tradition and says that any two or more alcoholics gathered for sobriety,

they call themselves an AA group.

Our central office told us we couldn't register under that name and we reminded them they worked for us not the other way around we meet at the example of St. Joseph Hospital in the

Alpine room or the Aspen Room, at 6 o'clock

every Friday morning.

We don't have a lot of dead weight at our meeting.

We don't want a lot of dead weight at our meeting.

Our format is very simple. We talk about a step, a tradition, or a

concept back to back, and it may take one meeting or it may take weeks. We really don't care.

Following that little gathering, oh, by the way, our second meeting of the month belongs to our

GSR and our central office rep.

We are part of Alcoholics Anonymous, and our business meeting is one of our regular meetings.

You can bring new people there.

If we're talking about the tense concept, we won't hear them.

They don't hear anything anyway.

Following that gathering, we all go into the cafeteria

and have breakfast together where the real meeting takes place.

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