From the September 2010 issue of AA Grapevine:
Don't Cry For Me: Smile!
Blindness was a sad state of affairs until he changed on the inside
I have been blessed to become
sober on Nov. 6, 1996, while in
an Oklahoma prison. I became
blind in September 1997, while
I was in prison, after a brain
surgery that went bad. After
that surgery I spent the next
two years blind and in prison—a sad
state of affairs. I made it by changing
on the inside first.
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From the Digital Archive - March 01 1978
June 1944--First issue of the Grapevine comes off press, put together by volunteers whom Bill W. called six ink-stained wretches. An eight-page newspaper, it was mailed free to all AAs in the armed forces for the duration of World War II.
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From the Digital Archive — April 1971
9th Step: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
ACCORDING to the Big Book, cofounder Doctor Bob was the first AA member to have a slip. Coming off a roaring bender, he saw that he would have to face his problems squarely: "One morning he took the bull by the horns and set out to tell those he feared what his trouble had been. Stepping into his car, he made the rounds of people he had hurt. He trembled as he went about, for this might mean ruin, particularly to a person in his line of business."
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From the Digital Archive — August 1948
The least possible organization, that's our universal ideal. No fees, no dues, no rules imposed on anybody, one alcoholic bringing recovery to the next; that's the substance of what we most desire, isn't it? Read more >
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