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Well, I like the informal discussion type of approach.

It seemed to me that on occasion like this, questions are something of intimately more of value than a lecture or a story.

But Rip suggested that I make some remarks here tonight, and I'm only too glad to do that.

And coming down on the plane, I got speculating with myself about the early days of AA

and about the meaning of them in terms of the grace of John, I've read somewhere that if a grain,

which has been stirred for centuries in a dry place,

is exposed to the right soil and the right climate and to enough light from

above it will manifest life and it will unfold and it will grow.

But this presupposes the right soil, the right climate, and above all enough life.

Well, I think it's that way with AA.

I remember years back when we first began to get publicity,

and the first very large occasion was a feature piece done in the Saturday evening post,

which all at once produced us about 6,000 members.

This was in 41, and by then a number of medics had become close friends,

some of them psychiatrists.

And these fellows allowed their names to be used,

a rather audacious step in those days, I assure you.

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