"...'We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.'
"AA membership was 74 members from 1935 through 1938 as the original manuscript went to press, 41 known to have achieved permanent sobriety, so is there a slight exaggeration?...?
I always took that line that Bill wrote as a form of hyperbole...... (o: Whether there were 100, or 74, or 41, it was really just one man, Bill W, who was doing most of the writing for the book, and who'd want to read a book on how one man was able to get sober and stay sober.....certainly not me. "100" just sounds so much better.....and more salable too.....hehehe
NoelleR