EDITOR'S NOTE

There is a first time for everything and in this December issue you have sent us your favorite first times . . . sober, that is. A newly recovered member en route to a business convention worries if it is possible to leave Las Vegas sober, and finds fellowship along the way. A sponsee lists all the things that her sponsor "made" her do for the first time without alcohol: go to a movie, a post-meeting coffee, and, horrors, a pool party, and reflects in gratitude that she can now pass these suggestions on to her sponsees. In "White-Knuckle Wedding," a newcomer survives one of the most universally feared events for the recently sober.