Thread: Where do all the professional people go?
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Old 06-17-2012, 12:15 PM
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awuh1
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Originally Posted by sugarbear1 View Post
AA was started by a self-made millionaire who lost it all in the stock market and while drinking, a proctologist with a successful medical practice
Just by way of historic accuracy... Bill W. was never even close to being a millionaire. Likewise, Dr. Bobs practice was never anything close to being "successful” prior to his getting sober.

It is true however, that within the first 100 AA members there were a disproportionate number of professionals, who were, like nearly all others in early AA, "low bottom" drunks.
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