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Old 02-15-2008, 01:23 AM   #4 (permalink)
nandm
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Bill W feels hopeless 10:3
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I had to be, for I was hopeless.
For many of us the willingness to begin this program was produced by our realization of the hopelessness of our situation. We had nowhere else to turn. The program was presented to us by people for whom it had worked. Nothing else has worked for us so we grab hold of these principles as we do for life itself.
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