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January 1980

The Power to Surrender

The compulsion to drink left him that night

AT MEETINGS, I heard people say, "My name is----and I'm powerless over alcohol." But I rebelled against saying these words myself. The idea that I was powerless over alcohol or anything else seemed unthinkable.

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