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The June Issue of Grapevine Is Here!

In this month's special section, AA members celebrate the many ways the Steps have changed their lives. Learn more in the letter from the editor. Just a beginning Pouring the bottle down the drain was great, but only the first step Time out! When the kids misbehave, mom’s Steps come in for a... Read more

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God's Confetti

A sudden flutter of butterflies provides this AA with a glimpse of the presence of his higher power

It was late August, and I was sober just under a year, yet I was a bit down. My pink cloud had long worn off. I was going to meetings and had cut the ties with the people, places and things from my drinking days. I was working and doing my best to follow the suggestions given to me. I had a couple... Read more

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The Writing on the Wall

Sometimes our Higher Power gets in touch in unusual ways

I attended my first AA meeting on June 1, 1990. My former drinking buddy, who was to become my first sponsor, had invited me to the meeting. It was held in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, in a halfway house. There was an assortment of unsavory looking characters smoking near the front... Read more