friend of Dorothy"

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Cruise ships often announce cryptic meetings of AA and "Friends of Dorothy" in their meeting schedules. So that AA members can stay sober and so that gays can get together and drink. Sometimes, of course, the groups overlap.

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On Mar 22, 2011, at 4:07 PM, "Garson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>
> One book claims that the construction of the term "Friend of Dorothy"
> was influenced by the term "Friend of Bill" used by Alcoholics
> Anonymous (founded in 1935), but if Cassell's is correct then perhaps
> "Friend of Oscar" influenced both "Friend of Bill" and "Friend of
> Dorothy".

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