One of the first essays about Alcoholics Anonymous I ever read was written by Roger Ebert, who in 2009, a couple of years before his death, decided that he was ready to come out publicly, not just as an alcoholic, but as a member of a program whose primary qualification for membership is that you do not tell people that you're a member of it: "Anonymity…
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