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You need always maintain person to the level of press radio and fields.

I think this is quite obvious, you know, because we get all kind of arguments about who's going to represent the group on TV.

And one would want them to be doing it. It'll be a lot of confusion.

So this is a non-action that we don't get into these things. There won't be any controversy in the group.

And I think, you know, we said, you know, it's attraction rather than I think that has

really been the success of alcohol, phenomenon.

And it's very difficult because, you know, most everything in the world has to be promoted.

And that's another thing that's really different about alcohols, anonymous.

It's not promoted.

Everything that we see is promoted.

And that's what makes us different.

Maybe that's what makes us attractive.

And we're not promoted.

We do not promote ourselves.

And I think that's one of the greatest attractions in our society today, the lack of promotion.

Of course, one of the purposes of this particular tradition is to protect AA itself.

We have a well-known figure, public figure,

who becomes a member of AA,

and if that figure, within a relatively short period of time,

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