July 9, 2025

“It should be the privilege, even the right, of each individual or group to handle anonymity as they wish ... Each individual will have to decide where he ought to draw the line -- how far he ought to carry the principle in his own affairs, how far he may go in dropping his own anonymity without injury to Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1946, “A Tradition Born of Our Anonymity”, The Language of the Heart