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Among the many correspondence items between Fr. John C. Ford, S.J., and Bill Wilson that were in the Shoemaker papers at the Episcopal Church Archives in Texas was a letter in which Bill spoke of Buddhism and the Twelve Steps. Fr. Ford had suggested sanctions against those whose religious views were at variance with the Twelve Steps, but Bill responded that he didn’t much care what the Buddhists did with the Twelve Steps. Many will recall that Nell Wing, A.A.’s first archivist, was a Buddhist.