From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... new A.A.'s,
this often seems like a ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
2.
... new about
that.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I had been out of town before during this particular dry spell, so there was nothing
new about that.
3.
New acquaintances
who know nothing of alcoholism ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
New acquaintances who
know nothing of alcoholism might be made
and thoughtful considerations given
their needs.
4.
... new adventure
of living until he first ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing
survey of the human wreckage he has left in his
wake.
5.
... new alcoholic
friends.
BB p.119,
To Wives
6.
... new alcoholic
looks for this spirit among ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Every new alcoholic looks for this spirit among us and is immensely relieved when
he finds we are not witch-burners.
7.
... new and
triumphant arch through which we ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was
the keystone of the new
and triumphant arch through which we passed to
freedom.
8.
... new and
wonderful ties, for you will ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
You will be bound to them
with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.
9.
... new and
wonderful world, no matter what ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Follow the dictates of a
Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
10.
... new atmosphere.
BB p.115,
To Wives
When you have carefully explained to such people that he is a sick person, you will have created a new atmosphere.
11.
... new attentions.
BB p.107,
To Wives
And just as we were being convinced of their heartlessness, they would surprise us with fresh resolves and new attentions.
12.
... new attitude,
a new relationship with our ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover
the obstacles in our path.
13.
... new attitude
and spirit all around.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
14.
... new attitude,
and they have been saved ...
BB p.150,
To Employers
15.
... new attitude
toward liquor has been given ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.
16.
... new attitudes
that finally brought many of ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply
shaken by the shortcomings of others
or by any calamity not of
our own making.
17.
... new avenues
of usefulness and pleasure.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness
and pleasure.
18.
... new basis,
but just as things are ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
19.
... new book
a great deal began to ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
20.
... new, by
the complete readiness with which ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does
not work for something
new which does?
21.
... new center
shone.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
22.
... new channels
of activity for themselves, mother ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
23.
... new confidence
that he is at last ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having found the shoes that
fit, he ought to step into them and walk with
new confidence that he
is at last on the right track.
24.
... new courage,
good nature and lack of ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
25.
... new courage
to many a priest, minister, ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled
world.
26.
... new customs
and practices within the Fellowship.
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
While our literature
has preserved the integrity of the A.A. message, sweeping changes in society as a whole are reflected in
new customs and practices within the Fellowship.
27.
... new dad
with apprehension, then with irritation.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension,
then with irritation.
28.
... new Employer.
BB p.63,
How It Works
We had a new Employer.
29.
... New England
town to which we new, ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.
30.
... New England
village of about seven thousand ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
31.
... new epoch
in the annals of alcoholism.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
These facts appear to be of
extreme medical importance; because of
the extraordinary possibilities of rapid
growth inherent in this
group they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism.
32.
... new events
throw us off balance and ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The quick inventory is
aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes.
33.
... new-found Friend
take them away, root and ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I ruthlessly faced my
sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch.
34.
... new-found happiness,
there will be ups and ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
35.
... new freedom.
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
36.
... new freedom
and a new happiness.
BB p.83,
Into Action
37.
... new friends
and is sure to find ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness
and pleasure.
38.
... new friends
in your own community.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
39.
... new friends;
it seemed they had known ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
40.
... new friends
that he is inconsiderately away ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Her husband may become so
wrapped up in A.A. and his new friends that he is inconsiderately away
from home more than when he drank.
41.
... new God-consciousness
within.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
42.
New groups
started up and it was ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
New groups started up and it was found, to the astonishment of everyone, that A.A.'s message could be transmitted in the mail as
well as by word of mouth.
43.
... new happiness.
BB p.83,
Into Action
44.
... new hope
and new courage to many ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled
world.
45.
... new in
life.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
46.
... new indeed
has been added.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
47.
... new instrument
for social action; a new ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
48.
... new joy
of living in trying to ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
49.
... new kind
of confidence is born, and ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.
50.
... New Land
had brought lustre to tired ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
The outlines and the promise of the New Land had brought lustre to tired eyes and fresh courage to flagging spirits.
51.
... new lessons
for living were learned, new ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when
the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
52.
... new life.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their
Creator's desire to give them new life.
53.
... new life.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
54.
... new life.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
55.
... new life.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
At the very beginning,
the couple ought to frankly face the fact that each will have to yield here and there if the family is
going to play an effective part in the new life.
56.
... new life
has been given us or, ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
57.
... new life
that he talks or thinks ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He may either plunge into
a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
58.
... new light
had entered the dark world ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety
time behind them was sufficient to convince
the membership that a new light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.
59.
... new man
and in their own way ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
60.
... new man
and watch his hope rise ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our
fellowship.
61.
... new man
and woman came to A.A. ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
62.
... new man
in the hospital and visit ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
63.
... new man
is anxious to proceed at ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
64.
... new man
must walk day by day ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
65.
... new meaning.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
66.
... new millennium.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of
"Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.
67.
... new miracle
of control would enable us ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it.
68.
... new mistakes
as we go along.
BB p.84,
Into Action
This thought brings us to
Step Ten, which suggests we continue to
take personal inventory and continue
to set right any new mistakes as we go along.
69.
... new movement,
giving it unstinted support and ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Clergymen and doctors
alike rallied to the new movement, giving it unstinted support and endorsement.
70.
... new mysteries,
joys, and experiences of which ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he
senses that he stands at
the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.
71.
... new one.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
And so it is: the beginning of the end of his old life, and the beginning of
his emergence into a new
one.
72.
... new ones.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
73.
... new ones
have been added, and eleven ...
BB xii,
Preface
Six of the stories in Part II have been carried over, eleven new ones have been added, and eleven taken out.
74.
... new ones
were added.
BB xii,
Preface
75.
... new order
of things, were the essential ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain
the new order of things, were the essential
requirements.
76.
... new outlook
was, we learned, something especially ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
77.
... new people
might bring their problems.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Aside from fellowship
and sociability, the prime object was to provide a time and place where new people might bring their problems.
78.
... new perspective,
new victory over hurt pride ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and wives have
sometimes been obliged
to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
79.
... new perspective
was unbelievably painful.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
80.
... new phase
of its pioneering time.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
81.
... new power
flow in, as we enjoyed ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we
could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
82.
... new power,
peace, happiness, and sense of ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the face of collapse
and despair, in the face of
the total failure of their
human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into
them.
83.
... new principles
by which he is living, ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
When your prospect has made such reparation as he can to his family, and has thoroughly explained
to them the new principles by which he is living, he should proceed to
put those principles into action at
home.
84.
... new prospect
that he is a man ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
85.
New prospects
could find us only through ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
86.
... new purpose
and devotion to the religion ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
87.
... new purpose
and meaning, to see whole ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
88.
... new relationship
with my Creator; that I ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
My friend promised when
these things were done I
would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all
my problems.
89.
... new relationship
with our Creator, and to ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover
the obstacles in our path.
90.
... new resources
of courage were uncovered, and ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when
the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
91.
... new road
we are walking.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Then we learn, often to our
consternation, that this is only the first milestone on the
new road we are walking.
92.
... new sense
of power and direction, provided ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of
a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit
of the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be
possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we
took other simple steps.
93.
... new sense
of responsibility for others.
BB p.119,
To Wives
94.
... new set
of conceptions and motives begin ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once
the guiding forces of the
lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.
95.
... new soil.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
96.
... new soil,
but growth has only begun.
BB p.117,
To Wives
97.
... new spiritual
advance!
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Why, we thought, our Society of Alcoholics Anonymous might prove to be
the spearhead of a new spiritual advance!
98.
... new state
of consciousness and being.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
99.
... new status
beyond the shadow of a ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
100.
... new stories;
eight were removed (in addition ...
BB xii,
Preface
Part III now includes twelve new stories; eight were removed (in addition to
the two that were transferred to Part I).
101.
... new stories
were added.
BB xii,
Preface
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.
102.
... new stories
were added; and the story ...
BB xii,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
103.
... new story
has been added to Part ...
BB xii,
Preface
One new story has been added to Part I, and two that originally appeared in
Part III have been repositioned there; six stories have been deleted.
104.
... new structure
of affection to pieces once ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
For a while they would be their old sweet selves, only to dash the new structure of affection to pieces once more.
105.
... new structures
will take years to complete.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Though old buildings will eventually be replaced
by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.
106.
... new tack
because here and there members ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We took this violent new tack because here and there members had tried to make money out of their A.A. connections, and we feared we'd be exploited.
107.
... new therapy
based on the kinship of ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
108.
... new titles;
thirty completely new stories were ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
109.
... new treasure
to himself.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
110.
... new venture
into open-mindedness.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
111.
... new versions
of two stories were written, ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
112.
... new victory
over hurt pride could be ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and wives have
sometimes been obliged
to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
113.
... new vision,
action, and grace to bear ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
As we have seen, self-searching is the means by
which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures.
114.
... new way
of life.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
115.
... new way
of life and have begun, ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to
convince those about us
that we are indeed changing for the better, it
is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who
have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
116.
... new way
of life to his employer ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.
117.
... new way
of living.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
118.
... new way
of living and thinking.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
This may hang on for months,
long after their mother has accepted dad's new way of living and thinking.
119.
... new which
does?
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does
not work for something
new which does?
120.
... new world
came into view.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
121.
... New York.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
122.
... New York.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the
Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
123.
... New York.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
124.
... New York.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
They are the custodians of our A.A. Tradition and the receivers of voluntary
A.A. contributions by
which we maintain our A.A.
General Service Office at New York.
125.
... New York.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
When I need a mental uplift, I often think of another case brought in by a physician prominent in
New York.
126.
... New York's
A.A. headquarters, asking, "Is there ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
Straightway he appeared at New York's A.A. headquarters, asking,
"Is there anything in our tradition that suggests
I shouldn't take a job like this one?
127.
... New York,
and of finding a friendly ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I have a shadowy recollection of being in
an airplane bound for
New York, and of finding a friendly taxicab driver at the landing field instead of my wife.
128.
... New York,
and the third at Cleveland.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
129.
... New York
broker.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.
130.
... New York
by express were looked upon ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Men who had liquor shipped in from Boston or
New York by express were looked upon with great distrust and disfavor by
most of the good townspeople.
131.
... New York
in that condition.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
132.
... New York
in the fall of 1935, ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the broker returned
to New York in the fall of 1935, the first A.A. group had actually been formed, though no one realized it at the time.
133.
... New York,
NY 10163.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You (Note)
134.
... New York,
NY 10163, under the title ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the
Illness.")
135.
... New York,
NY 10163, USA, will receive ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
If you cannot find A.A. in your
locality, visit our Web site: www.aa.org; or a letter addressed to Alcoholics Anonymous,
Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, USA, will receive a prompt reply from this world center, referring you to the nearest A.A. group.
136.
... New York
office which meanwhile had been ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
This brought a rush of 800 frantic inquiries into the little
New York office which meanwhile had
been established.
137.
... New York's
old 24th Street Clubhouse.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
138.
... New York
specialist in alcoholism who is ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
139.
... New York
stock exchange.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
140.
... New York
stockbroker and an Akron physician.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
The spark that was to flare
into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician.
141.
... New York,
to be followed in 1937 ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
142.
... New York,
USA, Alcoholics Anonymous maintains its ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
143.
... New York,
wanting to know about this ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They wrote the Foundation(*), A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting to know about this sort of streamlining.
144.
... New York
where a paper on A.A. ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Following are excerpts from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting (1944) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:
145.
... New York
who were trying to form ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics
who had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.
146.
... New York
would be an exception.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
147.
... new, young
officers from Plattsburg were assigned, ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.
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