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"We of Alcoholics Anonymous... are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful."

"The tremendous fact for everyone of us is that we have discovered a common solution."

"This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism."

Alcoholics Anonymous
There is a Solution
page 17

One of my most favorite paragraphs in the Big Book is also the shortest -- "It works -- it really does." (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 88)

I don't know how or why, but one of the miraculous ways in which the program works is through the fellowship and sharing of hopes and fears with like-minded people. The friendliness and genuine warmth of people toward me is one of the things that keeps me coming back.

Ironically, the comfortable feeling I get at A.A. meetings causes me to think of the lyrics to "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" (the Cheers theme song) by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo.

Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.

You wanna go where people know, people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

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