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it's all about nobody that i know wanted ahead of time to spend every night of the week in a smoky church

basement turned out to be just perfect and um wanted ahead of time to spend every night of the week in a smoky church basement.

It turned out to be just perfect.

A lot of things like that.

Points I like to make before I go into steps to help me

is they don't help anybody else.

And that is in AA, there isn't anybody who is an expert on anything except our own story.

And so there's nobody who is the ultimate authority on any of the AA principles or what's going on.

We are just another drunk trying to share to the best of our ability.

But we've learned about the steps.

I know that I do, and I'm sure anybody that we get to fill in over here,

tries to follow the AA literature to the best of our ability

and carry on the AA message as close to the way it was started as possible.

And I think that's a responsibility of all of us in AA

is to pass on as close as we can

what has been handed down because it worked so well

rather than ad-libbing and coming up with some kind of a, you know,

visualizing we start with the same basis,

which is the 12 steps.

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