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August 1962

How My Child "Came to Believe

An alcoholic mother has found that making amends brings results

ONE of the most poignant and least communicated experience of the alcoholic's life is the loss of children due to a marriage breakdown caused by alcoholism. I am a mother who lost my son during the final months of my drinking and I am a mother who has regained not only the physical custody of my child but the respect and affection of his father. Of all the blessings AA has bestowed this is surely the most deeply felt and the greatest daily reminder of the gratitude I owe to this Fellowship.

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