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Chapter ONE

       That We May Solve Our Common Problem

      (Recovery—the personal qualities and defects that help or hinder sobriety, slips and dry drunks, what two of the Twelve Traditions say to each AA member)

      You Don’t Know What Lonesome Is! December 1947

      Slips and Human Nature, by William Duncan Silkworth, MD January 1947

      Anybody Seen My Dragon? February 1967

      The Fear of Feeling Rejected October 1973

      Ever Been on a Dry Drunk? April 1962

      Those Depressions—Make Them Work for Good! August 1948

      Just Keep On Going April 1976

      Self-Pity Can Kill February 1973

      The Green Demon May 1962

      Complacency—the Enemy Within September 1961

      Tradition One November 1969

      Tradition Three January 1970

      Caught in Hateland December 1966

       Chapter TWO

       Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics

      (Daily life—attitudes and actions that help sober alcoholics live comfortably with others, money, jobs, illness, sexual relations, carrying the AA message)

      Not Today, Thanks October 1983

      On Cultivating Tolerance, by Dr. Bob July 1944

      Why Don’t We Talk About Sex? November 1969

      Responsibility Is the Name of the Game November 1966

      Coping with Unemployment April 1978

      The Impossible Dream November 1971

      Children March 1980

      Don’t Hide in AA January 1967

      Tradition Five June 1970

      Tradition Eleven July 1971

      Sponsor Your Doctor, by John L. Norris, MD January 1976

      Are You Powerless Over Money? August 1967

      The Heart Attack March 1975

      Charming Is the Word for Alcoholics, by Fulton Oursler July 1944

       Chapter THREE

       Men and Women Who Share

      (The AA group—group life, sponsorship, Traditions and guiding principles, the unique nature of leadership in AA, a new group forms)

      You and I Need Each Other May 1977

      Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need, by Bill W. April 1959

      It’s What Happened to Me April 1967

      Tradition Two December 1969

      The Whisper of Humility March 1955

      Tradition Four April 1970

      Real Rotation—or “Back Seat” Indispensables? May 1953

      How Group Conscious Are You? January 1961

      Tradition Seven October 1970

      Beginnings in Beirut April 1984

       Chapter FOUR

       Experience, Strength, and Hope

      (The AA program—the Twelve Steps, wisdom from the Big Book, other tools)

      The Steps Are the Program July 1975

      When the Big “I” Becomes Nobody, by Harry M. Tiebout, MD September 1965

      Truth August 1973

      Action and More Action January 1978

      The Big Book: One-Shot Deal or Constant Companion? March 1972

      Promises, Promises May 1981

      What About This 24-Hour Plan? January 1968

      A Selfish Program? November 1963

      How