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“Your Third Legacy” [A Dozen Steps]

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Bill W’s thoughts, which were later published in “The Language of the Heart: Bill W’s Grapevine Writings” about AA’s Third Legacy.

Feels important enough to continue to pass on with the hope that the passing on will continue… :)

“We, who are the older members of A.A., bequeath to you who are younger, these three Legacies - the Twelve Steps of recovery, the Twelve Traditions, and now the general services of Alcoholics Anonymous. Two of these Legacies have long been in your keeping. By the Twelve Steps we have recovered from alcoholism; by the Twelve Traditions we are achieving a fine unity.

Being someday perishable, Dr. Bob and I now wish to deliver to the members of AA their Third Legacy. Since 1938 we and our friends have been holding it in trust. This legacy is the general Headquarters services of Alcoholics Anonymous - the Alcoholic Foundation, the AA Book, the AA Grapevine, and the AA General Office. These are the principal services which have enabled our society to function and to grow.

Acting on behalf of all, Dr. Bob and I ask that you - the members of AA - now assume guidance of these services and guard them well. The future growth, indeed the very survival, of Alcoholics Anonymous may one day depend on how prudently these arms of service are administered in years to come.”

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