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What I learned at the AA meeting AA meeting was a very good learning opportunity for me and I benefited from it greatly I was amazed on how normal all the people looked and it really signified that honestly anyone could become and alcoholic and it can really mess up your life and make you so dysfunctional and take your life away I was amazed by all of their stories especially the story about how one of the men said that god is the only answer and it made me really realize that he is really and work in that place. I also saw a person that looked almost my same age and he had already been homeless and shot up heroine, it really blew my mind how many people in there were heroine attics. I can honestly say that the AA meeting changed my life
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