"The sentence 'I'm Missy and I'm an alcoholic' is perfect because of this: I tell you who I am without fraud or shame."   Missy Arndt

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Our friend Anonymous said that meetings are an "archipelago of sanity in a lunatic sea.'"  You may feel small next to the people who have years more sobriety than you do, but then it hits you: it's a one-day-at-a-time program.  Get up at 4 am tomorrow.  The one who got up the earliest is the one with the most sobriety.

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This section covers a lot of ground: steps & meetings, friends & service.  They all tie together in one word: recovery.

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"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."   Jennifer Yane

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"Consolation, for the condemned, is to be one of many."   Italian proverb

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"I'm not OK, you're not OK, and that's OK."  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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"If you don't want what we have, we will cheerfully refund your misery."  AA slogan

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"Bad decisions make good stories."  Anonymous

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"Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice."  Marcel Proust

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"Friendship is like peeing in your pants.  Everyone can see it, but only you know its true warmth."   Anonymous

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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."   Walt Whitman

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"80% of the people who hear your troubles don't care, and the other 20% are glad you're having them."   Tommy LaSorda

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"So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog.  Let us try to be little fleas biting.  Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable."  Marian Wright Edelman

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"The struggle is eternal.  The tribe increases.  Somebody else carries on."  Ella Baker

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"What we have to learn, we learn by doing."  Aristotle

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