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24 Feb. 1972 Dear Jack - Thanx for your fine letter and great news-bits montage and news of Swartz and our 13 months off the "suds". If we could lure Gladys off the Cigs I'd say the whole Conroy Clan is on the Glory Train.

arrow points to newspaper clipping Here's a strange AA tale out of the Athens of the WEST. 12 1/2 years sober, 8 years drunk, Now 2 years sober again. "J.B.C." Between you and Tillery you should know who this fellow is.

   I enclose a underlined:  "Time" bit on POT and Alcohol.
   Nixon Took 5 guys with him to China because with every party of 6 you get free egg-Rolls in a Chinese Restaurant.
   Had a Sicilian Card from DR. Bowen Recently.  He's Combining Culture with Tourism in the dear old ETO Theatre.  
   You can keep the enclosed AA talk given by member Major Mallins at Dublin when Dublin aa became underlined: 25 in NOV.
   Love to Tillery and Margaret too.  I Cried when I Read there are 20 brands of Cigarettes sold in China.  A 2nd USA!!?!
   Stay Joyful - J. Diggles  NN/RC/aa.

Home again From Moberly, Mo.:

   I came into AA in January 1949 and since that time have had one slip.  That slip began in May 1961 and ended in August 1969.
   I'm sure that for several years I had been a good AA member.  I must have been, because I was elected Delegate from Missouri to the General Service Conference in 1952.  If I hadn't been sincere, I would not have been elected.  As to what happened, I don't know, but at some time I started forgetting all AA contacts, meetings, Twelfth Step work, continued inventory, and everything I had learned that was important to a recovering alcoholic.
   The reasons why I started drinking aren't important.  The important thing is that I now have a little over two years' sobriety again.  I now attend two or three meetings per week and realize t heir importance.  My friends, let me say to you:  Never forget what you learn in AA.  I was lucky enough to survive an eight-year drunk -- you might not be.

J.B.C.