May 11, 2023
“I do not agree that the newcomer is the most important member at any meeting. In my opinion, equally important are those old-timers who showed me the way, and any middle-timer who may today be suffering. If newcomers are indeed the lifeblood of AA, old- and middle-timers are its skin and backbone. What a bewildered mess we would be in without them!”
New York, New York, June 1970, “Tradition Five,” The Best of the Grapevine, Vol. 3
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