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Dealing with Depression
Beyond the Blues and Back Again

Talking Me Off the Ledge
Step 10: Restraint of Tongue and Pen and Fist
Along Spiritual Lines: Where's My Reward
And more in the October 2005 AA Grapevine

AA Grapevine
September 2005 - Vol. 62, No. 4

Special Section:

Special Section:
Young, Sober, and Free

Stories from AAs in their Teens and Twenties

Does Daddy Know?
Destin, Florida — An alcoholic faces her worst fear — her father

The Eye of Death
Anchorage, Alaska — A fifteen-year-old hits bottom

If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em
Leander, Texas — An AA’s ten-year-old struggle to stay sober

One for the Ages
Huntsville, Alabama — Turning twenty-one without drinking

Flirting with Life
Ocala, Florida — The difference between being dry and being sober

Sk8ing Through Life
Sacramento, California — A boarder’s approach to sobriety

Raise the Bottom
The International Conference of Young People in AA

Also in this issue:

Step Nine: The Check’s in the Mail
New York, New York — Recovery — one installment at a time

The Perfect Meeting
San Francisco, California — The chair who had (almost) everything under control

Anatomy of a Dry Drunk
The Woodlands, Texas — Notes on not following directions

A Matter of Choice
Brea, California — A small revelation makes a big difference

Stick with the Herd
London, England — A renegade from Scotland comes in from the cold

The Acid Test
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — An AA faces the biggest challenge of his life

Alco-logic
Morton, Illinois — An alcoholics’s thinking about drinking

A Spiritual Homecoming
St. Louis, Missouri — The birth of the General Service Conference

Along Spiritual Lines: Where’s My Reward?
North Hollywood, California— Looking for the cash and prizes