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Will reach out to intergroups

ByMichael P.

The Twelfth Step Within Committee’s mission is to carry the message of recovery to members who are struggling and to former members. At the Fall Assembly, the committee decided it would distribute Twelve Step handbooks to three English-speaking intergroups that didn’t send a representative to the Assembly, as well as to the Region’s French-speaking intergroups.

This is the report the committee filed during the afternoon portion of the assembly lay, held Sept. 23 in Albany, N.Y., U.S.:

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