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Serenity crack. God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can,

and wisdom to know the difference.

Okay, before we get into the first three steps, I'd like to first thank a couple people for coming bright and early this morning.

As we know, it's kind of a rainy, dreary morning and to boot at seven o'clock.

So I'd like to thank Kathy for coming and also Peter, who came all the way from freehold.

I believe Peter has to travel about 50 miles to get here.

So Pete was here bright and early with me and helped us set up.

So I'd like to really thank you guys.

So welcome to the Wednesday morning, seven a.m. beginner's classes.

During the next four weeks, you will learn how to recover from alcoholism by taking the 12 steps as outlined in the book, Outlaw, Synonymous.

The program of AA is a spiritually late based plan of action that will remove the compulsion to drink and enable you to live a life that is happy, useful and whole.

AA instructional meetings are said to have been started in Cleveland, Ohio by Clarence S in the early 1940s.

After the publication of this Saturday evening post article about Outlaw Synonymous, AA started growing so rapidly.

It became impossible for the early members to individually take new prospects through the steps.

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