[RufusACanal]

For years, I would leave AA meetings, angry and resentful because no one had sincerely appreciate my wealth of knowledge and vastly superior intellect. My sage advice went by the wayside without a single affirmation. I waited for the applause for years and they never came. While you were practicing the common solution and humility, I was practicing Ron's solution and drowning in my own self imposed humiliation; laying the brickwork for another drunk, one resenting brick at a time.

In a New Life, I have no need for applause. I do have need though of supplying applause for those who desperately work to have freedom from Alcohol. Today, I applaud each of you in your continued pursuit of a New Life.