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Tanin


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Roger Ebert passed today. He had a bunch of years in AA.

He outed himself as an AA in a long article in the Chicago Sun-Times about 4 years ago*. It showed he was a grateful guy, though he unabashedly violated Tradition 11. Kind of surprised me then. No more, many do it.

 

 

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http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/my_name_is_roger_and_im_an_alc.html

Just reread it. A pleasant and informative primer on AA. I would vote to put it in an appendix to the Big Book.

 

 



-- Edited by Tanin on Thursday 4th of April 2013 05:18:20 PM



-- Edited by StPeteDean on Thursday 4th of April 2013 05:45:21 PM

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http://guineveregetssober.com/sober-life-roger-ebert-on-recovery-and-aa/

AA lost a good friend today. RIP Roger E.

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I read that piece by him fairly recently. Very sad that he lost his battle with cancer.

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Great Article, I really enjoyed it.

Sorry to hear he passed. I will never a fan of breaking traditions, but I appreciate the fact that he did the article in the spirt of being helpful and not self serving.

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Hi all -- it's been a while.

Saw this news and made me want to come to this site and share about Roger Ebert's passing too. I remeber seeing his article very early when I came into the fellowship and got sober. Like others, I repsect the tradition and don't refer to myself an an alcoholic in AA in any public forum (I'm not important enough to make it into press, radio of film. ;) ).

But I found his article hugely comforting. It was like "wow, he's one of us too and he's sober." Helped keep me on course. Thanks Roger E.

Steve

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