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Thank my name is Dis, and as I told you last night I wanted to self-appoint at his

storeings in alcoholics anonymous, and what we're going to do this morning is a doctor's

opinion which is this man right here, in case you haven't seen pictures of him, he's

he really was a kind of a called a medical sink by members of AA in New York, and when

the first group conscious of alcoholics was held, it was held in Akron, Ohio in 1937 by

about 22 or 23 people, and they finally realized it had something good going, but they also

knew that if they held it to themselves and tried to pass it on verbally it was going

to lose a lot of importance.

So they had a vote and they took a vote on whether they was going to have a book or not,

even among all the skeptics and everything else they voted by, about two votes to have

a book, and that the book, because Bill Wilson had more knowledge than anybody else about

this disease, they asked Bill to write the book.

And so Bill dictated this book to his first secretary Ruth Hock who typed it up, double

space it on paper, with the old paper in between, so she would have copies, you know what

that used to be like, nobody knows that, it's a Bob and I.

And the first two chapters he wrote was Bill's story and there is a solution.

And so he wanted to find out whether the information in these two chapters had any importance

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