This Sobriety Business

TWENTY YEARS ago, I attended my first AA meeting, and for eighteen years tried the program intermittently, In different parts of the country, with little success. Also during these eighteen years, I tried everything else humanly possible to solve my drinking problem. Then, two years ago, it all came together for me. It was not a spiritual awakening as such; but over a month's period, everything seemed to fall into place, and I've enjoyed two years of good sobriety with practically no difficulty. This is strange, for in my vocation, advertising-sales, alcohol is more or less a way of life. I am traveling by air weekly, with conventions, much entertainment, country clubs, and a hotel-motel environment. Nearly all my business associates and social friends, other than AA members, do partake of spirits, and in greater than average quantities.