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MAY 1988

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Enjoy reading all the articles of the current magazine below.

Notes From the Central Office
As announced in L.A. in December, the plans for voting on the IGC proposal (included with January Essay), were that initial group feedback on the proposal would be summarized and forwarded to groups via an Essay mailing. Initial feedback from some fifty-four groups (see list in this issue) has been received. Last word from the Committee is that they are still processing all these comments and that their summary will be out as soon as possible.

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Group News
One member’s response to a Convention: “The program told me what I needed to do to be sexually sober; the Convention gave me joy in doing it.”

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Group News
I would like to take this time to express my thanks for all the help and prayers from C.O. Our Sat. night group is still going strong. We made some bad decisions and mistakes, but God in his wisdom has been with us the past few months. We have three regulars each week, and the important thing is that we are very serious about SA and our lives. I want to urge all new groups to heed what C.O. says about running ads in any newspaper.

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Behind the Wall
The group here at K.S.P. is doing fine so far. It has dropped in attendance to about eleven. Our sobriety is getting stronger thanks to our Higher Power. Longest…so far is a little over a year by one inmate and four months for another.

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Member News
I would like to share a metaphor which B.M. of the Ft. Worth group shared recently. He said that his sexual addiction could be described as follows:

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Member News
I want to make an amends to you. When I was at the L.A. conference, I took the chip for nine months of sobriety, when I had only eight. So I’m sending it back to you. I found my error when I wanted to tell the length of my sobriety for December 28th, and so I computed again.

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Member News
[Regarding the subject of what to do about sex offenders and the whole business of sexual dependency counseling] I have made a decision not to mix up the program with counseling. Looking back, I see how crazy I was to even consider getting involved in a “professional” way! My main area of interest—profession-wise—is in spiritual direction.… Spiritual direction and the 12-Step program are real compatible.

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News From Germany
We’re very grateful for Ruth P.’s work in translating the German newsletters into English. The following are excerpts from their sixth newsletter, dated February:

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Food For Thought
What do you think of the following statement, which might be used in conjunction with our sobriety statement? Please pass along any comments you might have to the Central Office.

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New SA Manual and Additional Volume
A decision has been made to go ahead with typesetting the SA manual and publishing it in 6-by-9 quality paperback format. This new edition of the SA manual would still have a plain white cover, as it does now. In the process, it is anticipated that a few changes may be made to the text where appropriate.

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