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A Rabbit Walks into a Bar
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Lo Mejor de La Viña
El Grupo Base: Corazón de AA
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Le Langage du coeur
Le Groupe d’attache: Le battement du coeur des AA
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CONTENTS
AM I AN ALCOHOLIC?
What it was like for LGBT AAs and how they reached out for recovery
Risking the Truth February 1987
Condemned to Live an Underground Life July 1976
I Have Found Myself August 1982
To Thine Own Self Be True February 2003
I FOUND MY FELLOWSHIP
Voices of lesbian AAs
The Freedom to Belong January 1983
On Dangerous Ground February 2011
HOME AT LAST
Voices of gay male AAs