[Magdalen] Admission

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Glad for you that you have begun!

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:46 PM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>AA<<<
>
> Since we have so many knowledgeable sorts here, I've wondered something
> for quite some time.  The only sessions I've ever attended (by court
> mandate) were with just one group that conveniently meets a half-block from
> my home at St Paul's Episcopal in the early morning before 8:00 am.  If I
> ever go that route again (by choice this time) I won't attend that one
> because it irritated the hell out of me with one particular thing, and I'm
> wondering if that thing is AA-wide or just that bunch.  Once the session
> starts, no one can even dare utter a peep without prefacing said peep with
> "[Hi,]My name is ____, and I'm an alcoholic".  Over and over and ad
> nauseamly over.  I can see, maybe, the name repeated each time (but the
> name's not supposed to matter after all), but that whole damned entire
> statement?  Every single time?  Rational people need hear such a thing only
> once to get the point.
>
> So:  the AA norm, or just that bunch?  (I won't even mention the closing
> "Our Father" with everyone holding hands.  That would simply be easy to
> avoid by leaving just before [like I always did].)
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
Mobile, Alabama