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1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.

Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.